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THE  NEW  JERSEY  YOLUNTEERS 


(LOYALISTS) 


In  the  Revolutionary  War. 


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THE  NEW  JERSEY  VOLUNTEERS" 


^LOYALISTS) 


In  the  Revolutionary  War. 


BY 


WILLIAM  S.  STRYKER, 

Adjutant-General  of  New  Jersey. 


PRINTED  FOR  PRIVATE  DISTRIBUTION. 


TRENTON,  N.  J. 

NaAR,  DAr  Si,   NAAR,  BOOK  AND  JoB  PRINTERS. 

1887, 


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The  New  Jer.si<:y   Volunteers— Loyai .ists— 

IN    Till-     Ri:.()LL'TIONARY    WaR. 


The  facts  containod  in  tliis  paper  in  reference  to  the 
Loyalists  of  New  Jersey  in  the  military  service  of  the 
Crown  during  the  Revolutionary  war,  are  principally  cono- 
piled  from  Force's  American  Archives,  O'Callaghan's  Docu- 
mentary History  of  New  York,  Gaines'  Register,  Howe's 
Narrative,  Galloway's  Pamphlets,  Moore's  Diary  of  the 
American  Revolution,  Dawson's  Historical  Magazine,  Hat- 
field's History  of  Elizabeth,  Whitehead's  History  of  Perth 
Amboy,  Minutes  of  the  Provincial  Congress  and  Council  of 
Safety  of  New  Jersey,  Sparks'  Writings  of  Washington, 
Simcoe's  'lilitary  Journal,  Greene's  Life  of  General  Greene, 
Pennsylvania  Archives — first  and  second  series,  Lossing's 
Field-book  of  the  Revolution,  Tarleton's  Southern  Cam- 
paigns, Sir  Henry  Clinton's  Narrative,  Draper's  Kings' 
.Mountain,  Dawson's  Battles  by  Land  and  Sea,  Barber  & 
Howe's  New  Jersey  Historical  Collections,  New  York  Jour- 
nal, Rivington's  Gazette,  Ramsey's  South  Carolina,  Sims' 
South  Carolina,  and  the  records  on  file  in  my  office.  But, 
of  course,  Sabine's  Loyalists  of  the  American  Revolution 
has  been  constantly  consulted  ;  without  it  this  sketch  could 
certainly  not  have  been  written. 

As  soon  as  General  William  Howe  arrived  at  Staten 
Island,  on  the  7th  of  July,  1776,  so  pleased  was   he  with 


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4  The  New  Jkksby  VoLUNtEKKs  (Loyalists) 

hia  reception  in  the  harbour  of  New  York  that  he  wrote 
these  wor.is  to  the  British  governraunt:  "I  have  great 
reason  to  expect  an  enormous  body  of  the  inhabitants  to  join 
the  army  from  the  provinces  of  York,  the  Jerseys  and  Con- 
necticut, who,  in  this  time  of  universal  oppression,  only 
wait  for  opportunities  to  give  proofs  of  their  loyalty  and 
zeal  for  fTovernment.  Sixty  men  came  over  two  days  ago 
with  n  (ow  arms  from  tlie  neighbourhood  of  Shrewsbury, 
in  Jersey,  who  were  desirous  to  serve,  ajid  1  understand 
there  are  five  hundred  more  in  that  quarter  ready  to  follow 
their  example." 

General  Howe  soon  after  this  began  to  appoint  recruiting 
,  officers  in  different  parts  of  New  Jersey  and  to  organize 
detachments  of  Provincials  as  fast  as  they  presented  "them- 
selves for  service  in   the  army.      Mr.  Cortlandt  Skinner, 
whose  devotion  to  the  interests  of  the  British  king  before' 
the  war  had  made  him  a  prominent  man  in  New  Jersey, 
was  selected  as  the  proper  officer  to  organize  and   to  com- 
man.l    the   men   who   were   anxious   to  enroll   themselves 
under  the  standard   of  Great  Britai".      He  was  commis- 
sioned at  first  a  Colonel,  and  afterwards  a  Brigadier-Gen- 
.eral,  with  authority  to  vaise  five  battalions  to  consist  of  two 
thousand  and   five  hundred  soldiers,  "  under  command  of 
gentlemen    of  the   country   nominated    by   himself"      He 
established    his    headquarters   at    the  organization   of   the 
corps  on   Staten   Island,  in    New  York   harbour,  and   this 
place  soon  became  the  refuge  tor  all  tories  of  New  York 
and  New  Jersey,  as  well   as   for  deserters  from  the  pettr^.^AH 
army.      General    Skinner    himself    seems    to    have    been 
stationed  on  Staten   Islaiid  and  in    New  York  city  duri.ig 
most  of  the  war,  and  it  is  very  seldom   that  we  meet  hinj 
even  with  his  soldiers  in  any  otlier  part  of  the  contiguous 


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country.     We  learn  from  General  Howe's  Narrative  that 
at  the  beginning  of  the  campaign  of  1777  General  Skinner 
bad  been  able  to  recruit  but  tivo  hundred  and  seventeen 
men  of  his  complement,  but  in   November,  1777,  he  had 
eight  hundred  anu  fifty-nino-men  on  his  brigade  rolls,  and 
in  May,  1778,  "after  several   months  of  active  exertions," 
he  had  enlisted  one  thousand  one  hundred  and  one  men. 
But  at  that  time  the  nucloug  for  six  battalions  had  been 
made  and   the  officers  commissioned.     During   that  year 
Hve  hundred  and   fifty  additional  volunteers,  mostly  from 
New  Jersey,  were  enrolled  for  service,  and  afterward  sent 
to  Charleston,  South  Carolina.     It  is  then   apparent  that 
General  Skinner  recruited  abouf   two-thirds  of  the  quota 
tirst  assigned   to  him.     All   of  these  soldiers  immediately 
on  enlistment  were  placed  in  active  service,  and  thev  begnn 
to  distinguish   themselves  at  an  early  day  in  .^at 

zeal  to  annoy,  intimidate  and   injure  their  foj 
friends  and  neighbours. 

In  a  letter   written   by  General   Howe  to  Lo., 
Germain,  dated  New  York,  December  20th.  1776,  thit,  .. 
mark  is  made:  "  I  cannot  close  this  letter  without  making 
mention  of  the  good  service  rendered  in  the  course  of  the 
campaign  by  Cortlandt  Skinner,  Esq..  Attorney^General  in 
the  Jerseys,  who  has  been  indefatigable  and  of  infinite  ser- 
vice  since  the  army  entered  those  provinces.     I  therefore 
humbly  recommend   him  as  a  gentleman  meriting  royal 
favour.''     Thus  early   was  General   Skinner  showing  his 
devotion   to   the  Ki-g.     This  was  just  after  the  retreat  of 
Washington's  army  through  New  Jersey,  and  General  Skin- 
ner was  urging  his  own  friends  to  take  protection  from  the 
British.     It  was  also  just  prior  to  what  was  called  "  the 
unfortunate  afifair  "  at  Trenton. 


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In  Brasher's  Jcurr.nl,  Fobruary,  1777,  appc^irs  the  follow- 
ing new  ciiteciliisrn  : 
Q.  '  Who  is  U)»  most  ungrateful  man  in  the  world?" 
A.  "Oovornor  Skinnor." 
Q.  "  Why  do  you  call  him  Governor?" 
A.  "  BecHUso  when  Lord  and  General  How.^  thought  that 
they  had  ooncjuored  the  Jerseys  they  appointed  him  Lieu- 
tenant  Governor  of  that  State.     Skinner  assumed  that  title 
over  one-tenth   p-art  of  the  said  State  and  continued  hia 
usurpation  lor  six  weeks,  live  days,  thirty-six  minutes,  ten 
seconds  und  thirty-cne  hund-edth  parts  of  a  second  and 
was  then  deposed."  * 

Q.  "  Why  is  he  called  ungrateful?" 

A.  "  Because  he  has  joined  the  enemies  of  his  country 
and  enlisted  men  to  fight  against  his  neighbours,  his  friends 
and  his  kinsfolk  ;  beciiuse  be  has  endeavoured  to  transfer 
the  soil  that  gave  Inni  bread  from  the  rightful  possessors  to 
a  foreign  hand;  and  because,  to  gain  present  ease  and  tran- 
sitory honours,  he  would  fasten  the  chains  of  slavery  ou 
three  millions  of  people  and  their  offspring  forever." 

The  answers  to  these  questions  clearly  show  the  opiuiou 
which  patriotic  Jerseymcn  held  of  General  Skinner  and  of 
the  efforts  which  he  had  already  made  to  restore  them  to 
their  allegiance  to  Sngiand. 

In  llivingtonV.  Army  List  of  1778,  as  found  in  the  His- 
torical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  we  find  the  first  complete 
roster  of  the  officers  of  the  six  battalions  of  the  New  .Jersey 
Volunteers.  This  probably  ..hows  the  state  of  the  organi- 
zation in  the  early  part  of  sumnier  of  that  year.  The  com- 
pilation has  been  carefuUy  made,  J.e  spelling  of  the  names 
corrected,  and  it  is  now  set  forth  in  proper  official  style. 


In  thk  Hevolutionary  War. 

Brigadifr-Gt-nt-ral,  ....  Conlandt  .Skinn.'r. 
^-^■'•I'''''» I'dward  VVinslow. 

FIRST    BATTALION, 

Lieutenant-Colonel,    .    .    .  Kjisha  [,awren<  o. 

^'^j"' Thon.us  Lw.nard. 

•'^^j"t''i"f.      Patrick  Henry. 

(.)iiartcrmaster jame-,  Ncalison. 

^"""■y^"""' William  Peterson. 

^■"I"'^'"«. John  Barbaric. 

John  Lonysircet. 
Garret  Keating, 
Kjchard  Cayford. 

Captain-Lieutenant,     .    .    .  James  Nealson. 

Lieutenants, "johii  Taylor, 

Tiiomas  Oakason, 
Sanuiel  Leonard, 
John  Throckmorton, 
John  Monro,    — 
Patrick  Henry, 
Robert  Peterson. 

''"'•K"'^- John  R.^bbins, 

John  Thompson, 
Riciiard  Lippincott, 
William  Lawrence, 
Hector  McLean. 


SF.CONl)    ItATTAi.ION. 

Lieutenant-Colonel,     .    .    .  John  Morris. 

First  Major,       John  Antill. 

Second  M.ijor,      .    .        .    .  |ohn  Colden. 

^^j"'^'^"'- Thomas  T.  Pwtchard. 

QuarcermiLster, Thomas  Morrison 

^"^'"■geon, Charles  Earle.  ' 

Surgeon's  Mate James  Boggs. 

^'^'  '''^''»'       John  Rowland.     • 

^^»^    '"^' Donald  Campbell, 

George  Stanforth, 


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Captain' 


Lieiitt'iiants, 


Ensigns, 


Waldron  Blcau, 
Norman  McLcod, 
Cornelius^cLeoH, 
Uriah  Bleau. 
John  DoMon/es, 
Thomas  T.  Pritchard, 
William  VanDumont, 
Josiah  Parker, 
William  Stevenson. 
William  K.  Hurlet,    . 
Thomas  Morrison, 


THIRD    BATTAl-IOxN. 

First  Major Robert  Dnimmond. 

Second  Major,      Fliili,j  VanCortlandt. 

Adjutant,  ...,.,....  John  Jenkins. 

Quartermaster, John  Falker. 

Surgeon,    .......    .  Henry  ])ongan. 

<^apfains, foi,„  Hatfield, 

Samuel  Hud  not, 
David  Alston. 

Luptain-Lieutenant.     .    .    .  John  Alston. 

Lieutenants, Anthony  Hollinshead, 

John  Jenkins, 
John  Troup, 
William  Chew, 
Francis  Frazer.    X 

Ensigns, James  Brasicr  Lefirange, 

John  Canii), 
John  Willis, 
Jonathan  Alston. 


FOURTH    BATTALION. 

Lieutenant-Colonel,     .    .    .  Abraham  Van  Buskirk. 

First  Major, Daniel  Isaac  Browne. 

Second  Major,      Robert  Timpany. 

Adjutant, Arthur  Maddox. 

Quartermaster,      .    .        .    .  William  Sor-ell. 


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Surgeon, 
Captains, 


Lieutenants, 


Ensigns, 


.  John  Hanimell. 

.  William  Van  Allen, 
Samuel  Heyden, 
Peter  Rattan, 
Patrick  Campbell, 
Daniel  Bessonet, 
Samuel  Ryerson, 
Arthur  Maddox. 
.  PxUvard  Earle, 
Martin  Ryerson, 

John  Van  Buskirk, 
Michael  Smith, 

James  Servanier, 

Donald  McPherson, 

John  Hyslop. 

John  Simonson, 

James  Cole, 

Justus  Earle, 

John  Van  Norden, 

Colin  McVane, 

George  Ryerson. 


FIFTH    liATTALION. 

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LieuH'nant-Colonel,     .    .    .  Joseph  Barton. 

^^^Pr,^ Thomas  Millidge. 

^^^J"taiU i^aac  Hedden. 

Quarterifiaster, Iteming  Colgan. 

S'^^g*-'"". Uzal  Johnson. 

Surgeon's  Mate, Stephen  Millidge. 

^'^M^tains, jo.se,)h  Crowell, 

James  Shaw, 
Benjamin  Barton, 
John  Williams. 

Lieutenants,      John  Cougle, 

Lsaac  Hedden, 
Joseph  Waller, 
William  Hutchinson, 
Christopher  Insley, 
Danie!  Shannon, 


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The  New  Jersey  Volunteers  (Loyalists) 


Lieutenants,  . 

Ensigns,    ,    . 


John  Rtid. 
Patrick  Haggcrty. 
Ezekicl  Dennis,  ' 
Peter  Anderson, 
Joseph  Bean. 


SIXTH    HATTALION. 

Lieuicnant-Colonel,     .    .    .  Isaac  Allen. 

Major, Richard  V.  Stockton. 

Captains, Joseph  L.ee, 

Peter  Campbell, 

Charles  Harrison. 
Lieutenants,      John  Vought, 

John  Halton, 

Edward  Steele. 
Ensigns i  ■    •    •  r)aniel  Grandin, 

Cornelius  Thompson, 

James  Service. 

8om(^  luention  iinist  be  made  of  the  skirmishes  of  detach- 
ments of  the  Militia  of  New  Jersey  and  of  the  Continental 
Line  with  "Skinner's  Greens," as  they  were  called,  whenever 
those  loyalists  left  Staten  Island  for  a  tour  of  plunder  on 
the  rich  fields  of  New  Jersey,  and  note  must  also  be  made 
of  direct  attacks  on  the  tory  forces  on  Staten  Island,  as  well 
as  a  brief  statement  of  the  conduct  of  those  loyal  battalions 
in  their  campaign  in  the  Soutli. 

On  the  morning  of  February  ISth,  1777,  Colonel  John 
Neilson,  of  the  Second  Regiment,  Middlesex  county,  New 
.lersey  Militia,  with  a  small  detachment  of  his  command, 
captured  Major  Richard  V.  Stockton,  of  Lhe  Sixth  Battalion 
of  the  Volunteers,  with  fifty-nine  enlisted  men,  on  Lawrence 
Island.  Foil  men  were  killed  in  the  skirmish,  their  arms 
were  taken  and  some  camp  equipage. 

During  the  spring  and  summer  of  1777,  the  New  Jersey 


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11 


Volunteers  inacJe  various  excursions  into  New  Jersey  for 
forage  for  the  British  army.    This  became  so  annoying  that 
Colonel  Matthias  Ogden,  of  the  First  Battalion,  New  Jersey 
Continental  Line,  then  commanding  the  post  at  Elizabeth 
Town,  with  Colonel  Elias   Dayton,  of  the  Third   Battalion, 
who  was  stationed  at  Newark,  and  a  party  of  one  hundred 
militia  of  Essex  county,  determined  to  inflict  some  severe 
punishment  on  Skinner's  tories.     On   the   22d  of  August 
they  were  re-enforced  by  a  thousand  men  of  the  brigade  of 
Brigudier-General   William  Smallwood,  of  Maryland,  and 
ot  Bngadier-General  Chevalier  Preudhomme  DeBorro,  and 
just  before  midnight  they  crossed  over  from  Halstead's  Point 
near  the  mouth  of  Morse's  creek,  to  Staten  Island.     The' 
New  Jersey  Volunteers  were  then  stationed   from   Decker's 
Ferry  to  BiUops's,  now  Ward's  Point.     The  attack  by  the 
Jersey   Continentals,   before   daylight   the    next   morning, 
resulted  in  taking  prisoner  Lieutenant-Colonel  Elisha  Law- 
rence, of  the  First  Battalion,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Joseph 
Barton,  of  the  Fifth   Battalion  of  the  Volunteers,  with  on^ 
hundred  and  thirty  enlisted  men  of  their  commands,  and 
in  severely  wounding  Major  Johr.  Barnes,  of  the  First  Bat- 
talion, and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edward  Vaughan  Dongan 
of  the  Third  Battalion,  from  which  wounds  they  both  died'. 
General  Sullivan,  however,  with  the  other  body  of  Conti- 
nentals, endeavored  at  the  same  time  to  surprise  U.e  Volun- 
teers, but  was  deceived   by  a  tory  guide,  and   having  come 
m>n   the   loyal    tu.ops  awaiting   him,   was  quite  severely 
f'HHslied   by  thorn.     Lnleed,  General  Skinner  claimed   the 
allair,  notwithstanding  his  loss,  as  a  great  victory. 

On  the  27th  of  November,  1777.  General  Philemon  Diek- 
H'son,  commanding  officer  of  the  New  Jersey  ivliliti.i  sud- 
denly embarked  before  daylight  iron.   Halstead's  Point  to 


12         TiiK  New  Jersey  Volunteers  (Loyalists) 


Staten    Island    with    a   party    of  about   fourteen    hundred 
militia.     He  advanced  his  men  in  tliree  different  detach- 
ments by  different  roads,  to  rendezvous  at  a  central  point 
seven  miles  distant.     Unfortunately,  it  was  soon  found  that 
Genc-al  Skinner  had  been  informed  of  the  intended  attack, 
and  before  three  o'clock   he  had   drawn   his  troOps  off  the 
island.     General    Dickinson,   however,   made   a   few    little 
attacks  on  some  straggling  parties  of  the  tories  and  on  the 
detachment  of  the  British  troops  under  Major-General  John 
Campbell,  and    he   killed  some  five  or  six   men  and   took 
twenty-four  prisoners      Ho  lost  three  men  of  his  command 
captured,  and  two  wounded.     The  main  object  designed  by 
this  affair  was  not  accompli'  bed,  but  General  Washington 
was  pleased  with  the  disp6sal  made  of  the  forces  by  General 
Dickinson  and  the  manner  in  which  they  had  been  handled. 
A  c()nsider!il)le  body  of  the  New  Jersey  Volunteers  spent 
the   winter  of  1777-78  in   the  gay  life  which   the   Britisli 
soldiery  enjoyed  during  that  season  in  Philadelphia.     The 
rest  of  the  force  remained  on  Staten  Isiand.     From  Howe's 
Narrative  we  find  thai  during  their  occupancy  of  Philadel- 
phia the  British   held  out  special  inducements  for  men  to 
enlist  in  the  loyal  corps,  but  they  were  obliged  to  report 
that  they  obtained  but  "  three  troops  of  light  dragoons,  con- 
sisting of  one    hundred   and  thirty-two  troopers   and  one 
hundred    and    seventy-four    real    volunteers,  from    Jersey, 
under   Colonel    Vandyke."     The    service    of    this   officer, 
whether  he  was  a  Jerseymau  or  a  resident  of  Pennsylvania, 
has  not  been  ascertained,  nor  can  it  be  said  what  became  of 
the  "real  volunteers"  and  what  military  duties  they  per- 
formed. 

On  April  2d,  1778,  a  detachment  of  New  Jersey  Volun- 
teers left  Philadelphia  for  the  purpose  of  garrisoning  the 


In  the  Rk volution aky  War. 


13 


fort  at  BiUingsport,  New  Jersey.  A  small  attack  was  made 
by  the  militia  of  New  Jersey  from  Elizabeth  Town  Port  at 
one  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  June  9th,  1778,  and  they 
effected  a  landing  on  Staten  Island  and  fired  upon  the 
Provincial  troops  that  were  still  stationed  there.  Again, 
just  before  daylight,  they  attempted  to  land  in  ten  boats,' 
said  to  contain  one  hundred  men,  but  they  were  greeted 
with  a  quick  discharge  of  firearms  and  were  driven  back. 
It  is  thus  seen  that  the  tories  were  not  left  entirely  undis- 
turbed in  possession  of  this  beautiful  garden  island. 

On  the  evening  of  June  12th,  1778,  Captain  Cornelius 
Hatfield,  Jr.,  of  the  Jersey  Volunteers,  crossed  over  the 
sound  and  plundered  the  residence  of  Lieutenant  John 
Haviland,  of  the  First  Regiment  of  Essex  county.  New 
Jersey,  Militia,  and  carried  him  otf  a  prisoner. 

Some  portion  of  the  New  Jersey  Volunteers  crossed  the 
State  fro.n  Cooper's  Point  to  Sandy  Hook,  with  General  Sir 
Henry  Cliiiton,  in  his  memorable  march  through  New 
Jersey,  in  June,  1778. 

After  the  battle  of  Monmouth,  June  28th,  1778,  General 
Washington    posted    at    Elizabeth    Town    the    Brigade   of 
Jersey  Continentals   under   General    William   Maxwell   to 
guard  and  keep  in  check  the  armed  tories  on  Staten  Island, 
On    the    15th    day   of    October,    1778,   Captain    Patrick 
Ferguson,  of  the  Seventieth  Regiment  British  Foot    with 
a  detachment  of  the  Third  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  made  a 
descent  on  Little  Neck,  New  Jersey,  on  Egg  Harbour  Inlet 
surprised    a   detachment    oi    Count   Pulaski's   troops   and 
killed  some  fifty  of  his  men. 

On  the  27th  day  of  November,  1778,  an  expedition  with 
two  thousand  troops  sailed  from  Sandy  Hook  for  Savaniiah, 
Gt'orgui,  and  six  days  after  landing  at  Tybee  Island,  off  the' 


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14         The  New  Jkksky  V'olunteicks  (Loyalists) 

Imrhour  of  that  city,  they  took  part  in  the  fight,  December 
■iOtii,  t»ii  Brewtun  Hill.  A  detachment  of  the  New  Jersey 
Volunteers,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Allen  commanding,  went 
out  with  this  party  and  suffered  considerably  in  the  battle 
just  mentioned.  C'aptiiin  Peter  Campbell,  one  of  the  most 
gallant  officers  of  the  detachment,  was  killed. 

In  the  year  1779  the  brigade  of  New  Jersey  Volunteers 
was  so  far  consolidated,  as  to  reduce  the  organization  to 
four  battalions.  A  number  of  the  otficers  were  retired  and 
the  roster  of  the  force  app<'ftred  as  follows,  as  we  find  from 
McDonald  A  Cameron's  List,  in  the  Royal  Institution  of 
London :  • 

Brigadier  ("iciural,  .  (.'Drtlandl  Skinner. 

Chaplain,  .......  Edward  Winslow. 

IIKSI     r..VnAl.!ON. 


I.ifutcnam-C'olunel 

Major, 

Adjutant,  .... 
(}iiarterniaslcr. 
Surgtjon,    .    . 
Captain--,   .... 


l.icutciKUits, 


Ensigns 


.  U>epli  Harton. 

.  Thouia,s  Miliiilgc. 

.  Isaa(    Hcddcn. 

.  Bartholonu'w  Doughty. 

.  Uzal  Johnson. 

.  joseiiti  Crowoll, 

(iarnt  Keating. 

James  Sliaw, 

Ric  liard  Cayford, 

John  (Single. 
.  James  Ncalson, 

Joseph  Cnnliff. 

Patrick  Haggcrty, 

Is;a(   Ilt'dden, 

Samuel  Leonard, 

William  Hiit(  liinson, 

John  Taylor. 
.  John  Lawrence, 

James  Brit  tain, 


Tn  thk  Rkvolutionaky  War. 


Jiiiisigiis, 


•  Zt'iiopfion  Jewctt, 

Jollll    TIlOMipsOIl, 

J'^fin  Kcid, 
William  LuwreiH  1', 
James  Moody. 


SECONi)    liATTAI.lON. 


Lieutenant- Coloi 
First  Major,  . 
Snond  Major, 
Adjutant,  . 

Quartermaster, 

Surgeon,    . 

Chaplain,  .    . 
Captains,   . 


1, 


Lieutenants, 


Kiisigns, 


■  John  Morris. 

•  John  Antill. 
John  C:(.lden. 

•  Thomas  T.  I'ritchard. 

■  ''homas  Morrison. 

■  Charles  Earle. 
John  Rowland. 

•  VVaidron  Bleau, 
Cornelius  McLeod, 
Donald  C;  mplxll,  ' 
George  Stan  forth. 

•  John  De.Mon/es. 
William  Van  Dumont, 
■1'homa.s  T.  Pritchard, 
Jo-siah  IVker, 
'I'homas  Morri.son, 
Charles  Bahbington, 

Ceorge  J-amherL, 

Samuel  Ri,  hard  Wilson, 

William  Stevenson. 

Uriah  Bleau, 

James  Brasier  I.eCJranj^e 


THiRj)  i;attai.ion. 

•    .  Isaac  Allen. 


Lieutenant-Colonel. 

Adjutant,       ";•'";  ^^'■""'"^"nd 

O,,' ,.,  ■'*''^"  Jenkins. 

Q-,  ermaster, j,„,  ' 

.Mugeon,  It;,, 

Chaplain,      1^'"'"'"  ^''''''^^- 

'  iKinias  Barton. 


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IG 


Thk  Nkw 


Jbrsky  V0LUNTKKK8  (Loyalists) 


Captains, 


Lieutenants, 


Knsigns, 


Joseph  l.ee, 
Patrick  Campbell. 
Samuel  Hudnot, 
Charles  HarrisDU. 
Hartholomew  Thati  her, 

Daniel  Cozens, 

Thomas  Hunlock. 
.  Edward  Steele, 
Joha  Hatton, 
John  Troup, 
William  Chew, 
James  Harrison, 
John  {'()oml)es, 
John  Jenkins, 
Enoch  Lyon, 
William  Turner. 
.  John  Willis, 
John  Camp, 
Cornelius  Thompson, 
Nathaniel  Coombes, 
Jonathan  Alston, 
Peter  Dunworth. 
John  Seamon, 
Richard  M(  Ginnis, 
George  Swanton. 


FOl-RrH    HATTAMON. 

,  r-  1  .„,.i  Abraham  Van  Buskirk. 

[,ieutenant-ColonLl,     .    ■       •-"' 

Ph  lip  Van  Cortlandt. 

Major, '     

Adjutant,      '      "  ' 

lohn  Hanimell. 
Surgeon,    J 

nu\w,n  ■    ■  r->ani^l  Batwell. 

^,^"P^'""'      •    •    ■  William  Van  Allen, 

Captains, 

Peter  Ruttan, 

Samuel  Ryerson. 

Fxlward  Karle, 

Lieutenants, .     ,^ 

Martin  Ryerson, 

John  Van  Buskirk, 


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Lu'iilcnaiils, 


Ensigns,     . 


juncs'Scrviniiui , 
.[oil  1 1  Hyilop 
Joliii  .Simi)nM)n, 
John  Van  Nonkii, 
Justus  Earlc. 
Colin  M<Vanf. 
lanu'.s  Colo. 


Dnniifr  tlie  year  1779  General  Skinner  offered  u  reward 
of  2,000  guineas  lor  the  capture  of  Governor  Livingston,  oC 
New  Jersey,  dead  or  alive.  This  excited  the  cupidity  and 
the  reckleas  zeal  of  tnany  of  the  Jersey  loyali.sts.  A  very 
spic:'  correspondence  ensued  in  Mareli  and  April,  1779,  be- 
tweec  the  Governor  and  Sir  Henry  Clinton  in  reference  to 
this  attempted  exploit.  In  May,  1780,  we  find  Ensign 
James  Moody.^of  the  First  Battalion,  whose  very  name  was 
fi  terror  to  pittrnito  in  New  Jersey,  leading  an  expedition  for 
the  seizure  of  tjje  Governor. 

On  the  10th  of  May,  1770,  about  one  hundred  men  of  the 
Third  Hattaiion,  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  crossing  from  New 
York  city  by  way  of  New  Dock,  attacked  their  old   Bergen 
county  neighbors  at  Closter.     They  killed  Cornelius  Dema- 
vest   and   wounded   three  other  farmers  and    hiirned    the 
<ivvelling  houses  and  barns  of  seven  of  the  inhabitants  of 
the  village.     The  militia  in  that  part  of  the  county  in  the 
companies   of   Captains   Abraham    J.    Blauvelt,  Cornelius, 
llarringand  John  Iluyler  immediately  gathered  and  pur- 
sued the  tory  bands,     'l^e  Loyalists  succeeded,  however,  in 
«;ii  lying  off"  four  of  the  patn^r,,  but  obtained  no  cattle,  no 
forage,  or  any  plunder  of  any  kind. 

During  the  summer  of  1779  a  considerable  detachment 
ol  the  New  Jersey  Volunteers  was  sent  to  reinforce  the 
British    army  in   South    Carolina,  and    took    part   in    the 


m 


18 


Thk    NkW   JkH8KY    V0LINTKKU8   (LoYALlHTf*) 


assault....  Suvaniuih,  October  Otii,  1770.  A  l,«tiali„„  nndn- 
con.mn.KJ  of  l^ieutenunt-C^olonel  Is,,ac  Alle.,  lormo.l  part  ot 
the  jrurriso,,  ot  ui.e  „f  tl...  largt'  redoubt.s  „„  tl.o  south  .side 
of  the  city,  near  the  river.  Captain  Dn.iiol  (•..zei.s,  of  th., 
Third  Battalion.  lost  hi:;  lif,.  in  this  en^ra^reinent 

On  the  Oil,  of  .lanu.iry.  1780.  BriHadier(}encml   Williao. 
Irvine  received  .Mders  from  General  Washington  to  ascer- 
tain the  situation  and  strength  of  General  Skinner's  HriKade 
on  State..  Jsiand.     The  ni^rj.t  of  the  l-lth  of  Janua.-y  was 
selected  for  the  enterprise,  and  Major-G.neral  Lord  Stirling 
was  detailed  to  counuat.d  the  forces,  whwh  moved  in  three 
<li8tinct  detachmor.ts.     The  party  starte.i  on   the  morning 
of  the  loth,  crossed  the  ice  on  sleds  from  Dellart's. Point  to 
Sta:  :n  Island,  and  one  detachment   marched  towards  Don- 
gan's   Mills,  another  towi.rd  what   is^  now  Tompkinsville, 
and  the   third    detachment    toward    Decker's  Ferry.     The 
tones,  again  apprised  of  their  comi.ig,  wc,-e  found  Jtrongly 
guarded   in   their  works,  and    it  was  with    some    ditlicu'lty 
and   adrlress   that  Lord   Stirling  was  able  to  withdraw  his 
command    in   safety,  nul  even   daring    to  attack    theui   m 
their  intrenchments.     He  had  learned  that  a  channel  had 
beei.  opened  in  the  ice  from  New  York,  and  that  large  re- 
enforcements  were  on  their  way  from  tha*  city. 

A  i.arty  of  New  Jersey  Volunteers  of  the  First  and  Third 
iiattalions— inall  one  hundred  and  thii-ty-lwo  men— under 
Lieutenant  Van  Huskirk.  with  tweWo  British  dragoons 
under  command  of  Lieutenant  Stuart,  made  a  raid  on 
Klizabeth  Town  on  the  evening  of  January  25th,  1780,  and 
carried  off  five  officer.s  and  forty-seven  soldiers.  They  also 
burned  the  Presbyterian  Church,  the  Court  House  an<l  the 
School  Hou-e.  Captain  Cornelius  Hatfield,  Jr.,  was  the 
gui.le  of  the  tory  troo|Ks  on   this  occasion,  and   the  uicen- 


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19 


'\niry  work  was  HHcrib^.l  to  tl.o  (li^.Mo.lit  of  this   nmlicious 
Mill.,  whoso  fatlier  was,  at  that  v«ry  time,  an  oldor  in  the 

Hirch  (lohtn.yed  by -I) is  wanton  conduct. 
^    On  thfc  evening  of  February  10th,   17H0,  th»  British  and 
:ory  (.roopaon  Stuten  Ishvnd  made  another  raid  on  l-:iizaheth 
T')vvn,  plundering  the  residences  of  many  prominent  eiti- 
'..MH  and    made  active  search  for  Judge   Eiisha   IJoudinot 

I  -i   the   Hoiiorabh-   William    Peartroe  {Smith,   boll,  noted 
i  atriots. 

On  March   i^lth,  1780,  they   tried   thr  same  experiment, 
ii.d  this  time  took  Major  Matthias  Halsted  ^v  prisoner. 

On  .June  7lh,  1780,  two  be.ttalio.i.-,  of  the  New  Jersey 
Voinnieers  having  been  assigned  to  the  division  com- 
manded by  the  lles-jian  General  Knyphausen,  crossed  over 
to  Elizabeth  Town,  marched  as  far  as  Oonnecti^'ut  Farms 
and  thence  to  8pringHeid,  New  Je'rsoy.  In  the  battle  of 
Springfield,  which  was  fought  June  23d,  1780,  .these  two 
battalions  marched  on  either  flank  of  the  division  of 
Major-General  Matthew.s  and  on  the  marc^^  c^  during 
the  light  exchanged   many  shots  with  tho'  mum  troop^. 

fn  the  forces  comniundtd   by  Lieutenani  Colonel  Patrick 

Ferguson,  and   generally  spoken   of  i..i   British  regulars,  a 

"ousidorable    number   of  i)icked    men  of  the  New   Jersey 

^     iunteers  hr.d  been  assigned  for  special  service      Ca[)iain 

r.itiick  Can',[.bell  of  the  Second  Battalion,  commanded  the 

•litacl.meiiL  of  liglit  infantry  which  belonged   to  the  com- 

i.iand   of  Colonel   Alexander  Jniies.     This  corps  took   an 

acMve  part  in  theflgiit  at  King's  MoQntain,  South  Caro^na, 

October  7th,  1780.     Captains  Patrick  Campbell  and  Samuel 

Uyerson  were  wounded  and  Ensign  Richard  McGinnis  was 

killed  in  this  fight. 

On  the  evening  of  November   4lh,  1780,  a   party  of  the 


I   I 


20 


TjlR    NiCW    JkkHKY    Voi.UNTKKKh    (Lo^aI.ISTH) 


«:*!!.> 


VoluiitoerH  nimo  nvor  from  Slaten  IslumI  to  Ellzali.'tli  Town/ 
uimI  oil  this  (MicHflion  cjipluied  Colonel  MutlliiuH  Oj,'.lt'ii,  of 
the  First  RogirrHmt,  Jersey  (Jontinontal  Line,  un.l  Cttptmn 
Jonatlum    Dayton  of  the    Thin!   Koiri,„oi.t.     Enterpriseb  of 
this    kind    wevo   froquent  during   the   winter  of  1780-81. 
Espocittlly  wa-s  this  so  on    March   2l8t,  2at'i   and  27t!i  and 
Juno  20th,  17«1. 

In  t.lie  Hu-ge  of  Fort   Ninety-Six    in  South  Carolina,  May 
22d,   1781,  the  garrison    consi-;tfd    j.uitly    of  nion   of   tli.> 
Seoon.l     Battalioi     of    the    Voluiiteors.     ('aptain.    Patrick 
Campbell  commanded  a  party  of  thirty  men,  who,  at  one 
stage  (.f  the  s\f>gv,  made  a  sally  from  the  rear  of  the  battery 
and  foil  on  the  Hank  of  ilie  American  troops  and  a  desper- 
ate contest  ensued.     Captain  John  Barbarieand  Lientcnani 
John     Hattoii     were    badly    wounded.     'JMie    New    Jersi- 
Voluntoers   took    part   also    in    the   fight   at    Guilford,   ai 
Cowpens,  at  Eutaw  Sprii.^s,  and  at  the  si.-ge  of  Charleston. 
At  the   battle  of  Eutaw  Springs,  Captain  James  Shaw,  of 
the  First   Battalion,  was   mortally  wo^inded  and  died  sooi- 
afterward,  and   Captain  John  Barbaric,  of  ihe  same  organi- 
zation, Captain  Jacob  V.U'    Buskirk   and  iJeutenant  John 
Troup,  of  the  Thir.i  Battalion   received  serious  wounds. 

OnSeptombhr  4th,  1781,  the  Fourth  Batialion  left  New 
York  witli  Arnold'.s  expedition  for  the  attack  on  New  Lon- 
don, Conner,-  M  "lioy  landed  near  'hal  village  on  Sep- 
teniberGth  louditating  only  ;;!under  and  not  battle.  TIjl 
battalion  u.ok  part,  m  the  closing  scene  of  the  desperate 
defence  cf  Fort  Griswold,  and  the  murder  ol  r.ieutenant- 
Colonel  William  Ledyard,  after  he  had  given  up  is  sword. 
IS  often  in  hietor'y  given  to  the  discredit  of  Lieutenant- Col- 
onel Van  Buskirk.  This  certainly,  however,  is  an  error. 
General  Arnold  detached  the  Fourth  Battalion  nnder  com- 


ALI8TH) 


In'  THh:  I^rvoi.i  iMiNAKY    \\  ak. 


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lizftlx'tli  Town- 
liias  O^t It'll,  ot 
',  and  Captain 
Entorpriseti  of 
p  of  1780-'81. 
and  27t!i  and 

Carolina,  May 
r  nion   of   till' 
)tain,    l\iirifk 
1,  who,  at  ono 
of  the  httttory 
and  a  d(;sp«r- 
id  Ijientcnani 
New   Jersey 
Guilford,   at 
>f  Charleston, 
tnes  Shaw,  of 
iiid  flied  sooi, 
same  or^faiii- 
Litenant  John 
i  wounds, 
ion  left  Naw 
on  New  LoM- 
lage  01)  8ep- 
hattle.     The 
the  desperate 
rjieutenant- 
ip     is  sword, 

)Utl'llHUt(!ol- 

is  an   orror. 
under  coin- 


nnind  df  Lieutenant-Color)el  Joshua  Uphain,  of  Massa- 
chusetts, to  take  ti^hilj  which  idminanded  the  village. 
This  waH  very  quickly  done,  and  General  Arnold  followed 
the  force  to  the  hill,  which  had  been  taken.  During  this 
li^'ht  they  were  compelled  to  storm  Groton  Fort  They 
nniHsacrod  the  garrison  and  burned  the  villa;;  .  i  New 
London, 

Ainonj;  the  "  prisoners  takt^n  in  the  garrisons  of  York 
und  (;iouce.ster,  October  19th,  1781,"  we  find  that  the«-e  wa.- 
.1  I'uptuin,  a  lieutenant  and  two  enlisted  men  ol  the  Third 
Regiment, .New  Jersey  Volunteers.  This  littlo  {tarty  evi- 
dently failed  to  escape  on  the  transport  vessels  to  New  York, 
on  which  Lord  Cornwallis  had  placed  all  th^Loyalists  who 
liad  taken  part  in  the  jjiege  of  Yorktown. 

hi  Gaines'  Register  for  1782,  in  the  Historical  Society  of 
Pennsylvania,  we  find  a  roster  of  the  ofiieers  of  the  Volun- 
teers as  they  appeared  by  the  I'oUs  of  that  brigade  at  the 
beginning  of  that  year.  Lieutenant-Colonel  DeLancoy  had 
returned  from  captivity  and  many  other  changes  had  taken 
place  in  the  lists  of  the  oflricers  of  Skinner's  brigade.  The 
roster  is  as  follows  : 


Bri^.i(li\r  (u'licwil. 


Corthmdi  Skinner. 


IIRsr     l!AI  I  .\I.1().\. 


I-iculcn;ini  (  iiii.ncl, 

Major 

.Adjiitam 

Qiiarteriiiastt.r, 
(^uarterinastor, 

.Surgeon 

Chaplain, 
Captains,   .... 


.  Stfj>lii..n  l)(.d,an(  t.'\' 
.  'I'homas  Millidj^'c. 
.  O.'ias  hisley. 
.  JohTT  Waddington  (Died). 
.  'I'heodore  Vaileaii. 
.  I  /al  jolmson. 
.  Clifirle.s  Inglis. 
.   jchn  Colden, 
Joseph  Crowe'!, 


22' 


Thr  New  Jersey  Volunteers  (Loyalists) 


Captain^ 


Captain-Lieutenant, 
Lieiiten;ints,  .'   .    .    . 


Ensigns, 


_^  John  CoLgle, 
John  Taylor, 
Samuel  Li-onard, 
William  Hutchinson. 
Joseph  Cimiiff, 
Isaac  Hcdden, 
Patrick  Haggertv, 
John  Tluimi)S(jn, 
Jt>hn  Lawrence, 
James  Moody, 
John  Reid, 

Wilh'ani  Van  Duniont. 
James  Brittain, 
Zenophon  Jewett, 
Ozias  Insley, 
Henry  Barton, 
Phineas  Millidge, 
Jolm  Woodward, 
James  Barton, 
Reulien  llankinson, 
Philip  Skinner. 


SKCOMi    BATI'AI.ION, 


I  ieihenant-C'oIonel.     .    .       Isaac  Allen 

^ki'"" Rol)erl  Drununond, 

Adjutant, Cornelius  Thompsun. 

Quartermaster.      .    .   ".        ,  John  Falker. 

^i""g^'<"i, William  Peterson. 

^-'I'MJl^i'". Ch'arles  Morgan. 

Captains. Jos- ^jh  Lee, 

Patrick  Campbell, 
Charles  Harrison, 
Bartholomew  Thatcher, 
Daniel  Co/ens, 
Thomas  Hunlock, 
John  Barbarie. 

('a)itain  Lituirtumt.      ,    .    .  lidward  Steele. 

Lieutenants Jjjhn  Jenkins, 

Vyilliam  Chew, 


In  thk  Rkvolutionahy  War. 


5^3 


Lieutenants, 


Ensigns, 


.  John  Hatlon, 
Jamt's  Harrison, 
John  Coomljes, 
Enoch  Lyon. 
John  Wilhs, 
Cornelius  'i'honipson, 
Nathaniel  Coonil)es, 
John  Swant(jii, 
Joiin  Shannon. 
Joiin  Leonard, 
Lewis  'riionipson, 
George  Lee. 


THIRD    BATTALION. 


Lieut-nant-Colonel, 
Major,  .  .  . '  . 
Adjutant,  .  . 
Quartermaster, 
Surgeon,  ,  .  . 
Surgeon's  Mate, 
Chaplain,  .  .  . 
Captains,  .    .    . 


Lieutenants, 


.  A-hraham  Van  Huskirk. 

.  l^hilip  Van  Cortlandt. 

.  John  Hyslop. 

.  William  Sorrell. 

.  John  LLTmniell. 

• LLiulenheck. 

.  Daniel  Batvvell. 

.  William  Van  Allen, 
Peter  Rullan, 
Samuel  Ryerson, 
Ja(ol)  Van  Busk  irk, 
Edward  Earle, 
Waldron  Hkaii, 
Donald  C;uiij)l)ell, 
Norman  McI,eo(l. 

,  John  \'an  Busk  irk, 
James  Servanier, 
J<;hn  H\sl(jp, 
Jolui  Simonson, 
John  Van  Norden, 
Josiah  Parker, 
William  Stevenson, 

George  Lambert, 

Justus  Earle. 


24         Thk  New.Jkrsey  Voluntkkrs  (Loyalists) 


Ensigns, 


Fhitip  \'-di\  Conlandt,  jr., 
William  Sorreli, 
Richard  CoojitT, 
John  Jcwtit, 
Uri;ih  Bleau, 
Henry  Van  AUcii, 
Robert  Woodward, 
Stephen  Ryder, 
Hendorff. 


A  roster  of  officf;>rs  of  the  brigade  .in  1783,  tlie  close  of 
the  war,  is  giveij  in  Rivington's  Army  List,  in  the  collec- 
tions of  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  This  record  was 
made  about  the  time  the  loyalists  had  abandoned  all  hope 
of  sustaining  the  British  power  in  the  new  republic,  and 
.were  beginning  to  tiiink  where  tiiey  should  flee  to  escape 
the  hatred  of  their  former  friends  and  neighbours.  The 
list  is  here  given  : 


Brigadier-General, 


C'ortlandt  Skinner. 


KIKSr    BATTALION. 


Lieutenant -t'olonel 

Major, 

Adjutant 

Quartermaster. 
Surgeon,    .    .    . 
Chaplain,  .... 
Captains.   ... 


Stej)hen  DeLauf  ey. 
Thomas  Millidgi'. 
Jolin  Atchison. 


( 'ai>iani-l,ieulenant. 


Charles  Earle. 
Charles  Inglis. 
Joseph  Crowell, 
John  Cougle, 
John  Taylor, 
Samuel  Leonard, 
Alexander  McDonald 
Patrick  Haggerty, 
Wiili.nii  Hut(  hinson. 
Josejjh  Cunliff. 


In  thr  Revolutionary  War, 


25 


l^.it'iitcnants. 


Knsigiis, 


.  Isaac  Hfdden, 
John  Thompson, 
Jolin  I-awrcncc, 
VViUiani  Van  Dnmont, 
James  Moody, 
John  Reid, 
Andrew  Stoc  kion, 
James  Brittain, 
Henry  Barton. 
.  Zenophon  Jcuett, 
Ozias  Insley, 
I'hincas  Millidge, 
John  Woodward, 
James  J^arton, 
Rciiljcn  Hankins(jn. 
Phih'p  Skinner, 
John  Atchison, 
Josejjh  Driltain. 


Lieutenanl-Colonei,  •...    .    .  Isaac  Allen. 

^^^■''''■' ■  RoLert  Dnmmu.n.:. 

^'I-"y"'^' •'    •  Cornciins  Thompson  (Resigned). 

'^^'J"^^"^t' George  Cypher. 

Quartermaster, William  Falker  (Resigned) 

Quartermaster, Daniel  James 

'^"'^eoon, i3,,ni,.i  Bancroft. 

;,I''''t'"^' Charles  Morgan  (Removed). 

^''^'1''^^'". James  Sayre. 

•-'^1"^'"^'  Joseph  Lee, 

Patrick  Campbell, 
Charles  Harrison, 
Bartholomew  Thatcher. 
I>aniel  Co/ens, 
Thomas  Hunlock, 
John  Barharie. 

CaplainT,icntenant,     .    ,    .  Kdvard  Steele 

''■'^"'^■"^''"f'^'      John  Jenkins. 

William  Turner, 


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The  Nkw  Jkksky  Volcjnteers  (Loyaijsts) 


Lieutenants, 


ICnsigns, 


Jolm  Hatton, 
James  Harrison, 
John  Coombfs, 
ICnoch  Lyon, 
Jolm  Willis, 
Cornelius  Thompson. 
Nathaniel  Coombes, 
John  Siiannoii, 
William  Itonks, 
John  Leonard, 
Lewis  Thompson, 
George  Leo, 
Ruloff  [^.uloffs, 
Stephen  Millidge. 


I      I 


THIRIJ    HATTAI.ION. 

1 

Lieutenant -Colonel,     .    .    .  Abraham  Van  Biiskivk. 

Major, ...  Philip  Van  ("ortlandt. 

.\djutant, John  Hyslop. 

Quartermaster, William  Sorrell. 

Surgeon, John  Hammell. 

Cha])!ain,      Daniel  Batwell. 

Cajjtains,' William  Van  Allen, 

Samuel  Ryerson, 
Jacob  Van  Busk  irk, 
Ldward  Karle, 
Waldron  Bleau, 
Norman  Mcl-eod, 
Donald  Campbell. 

Lieutenants,      John  Van  Buskirk, 

James  Servanier, 
John  Hyslop, 
John  Simohson, 
William  Stevenson, 
Josiah  Parker, 
(ieorge  Lambert, 
Justus  Earle, 

Richard  Cooper.  n 

isigns, I'hilij*  Van  Cortlandt,  Jr., 


In  thk  Rkvolution 


\u\   \V 


,R. 


27 


^"''^'"'^' William  Sorrell, 

John  Jowett,  - 

Uriah  iJh'au, 
Ifrnry  Van  Allen, 
RdIktI  Woodward, 
Stephen  Ryder, 

Hendorff, 

Mall  om  WiJmott. 

In  addition  to  what  has  been  written  in  reference  to  the 
conduct  of  these  tory  volunteers  during  the  Revolutionary 
War,  special  mention  must  now  Be  given  of  the  officers  who 
^    coaimanded  this  contingent  during  that  period. 

Brigadier-General. 

(^ouTLANOT  Sk'inner.-A  ivM  puvoAy  personal  facts  with 
regard  to  General  Skinner  need  only  now  be  added.     He 
was  of  Scotch   ancestry   and   was   born   in   1728,  was  the 
Speaker  of  the  Colonial  Legislature  after  1705  and  the  last 
Attorney-Gei,eral  of  the  King  for  the  Province  of  New  Jer- 
sey.    He  was  consi<lered   a  lawyer  of  marked  ability  and 
stnct  integrity  of  character.     He  continued  his  allegiance 
to  the  Crown  and  received  authority  to  form  a  corps  of  loy- 
al.sts  for  duty  as  a  brigade  of  New  Jersey  Volunteers  in  the 
'u.litary  service.     He  was  made  colonel   thereof  July  1st 
1776.  and  afterward  commissioned  brigadier-general      He' 
nerved  as  such  during  the  whole  war.     His  family  lived  in 
New   York   city  an<l   afterward   at  Jamaica,  Long   Island 
during   the   war,  and   at  its  conclusion   they  all  sailed  for 
England.     He  continued   through   life  on  the  half-pay  list 
oi  the  British  Government  as  a  general  oliicer,  and  he  died 
at  Bristol,  March   15th.  1799.     He  married,  in  1752  Eliza- 


28         The  Nkw  Jeksicy  Voluntkkks  (Loyalihts) 

beth,  daughter  of  riiilip  Kearnoy,  of  Perth  Amboy,  New 
Jersey.     He  had  five  sons  and  eleven  daughters. 

LiKUTKN  ant-Colon  ELS. 

Isaac  Allen. — About  the  time  of  General  Howe's  occu- 
pation of  Trenton,  in  December,  177G,  the  family  of  Isaac 
Allen  left  their  home  in  that  city,  accei^  ed  protection 
papers  and  were  ever  afterward  considered  subjects  of  King 
Geprge  Isaac  Allen  was  commissioned  December  3d,  177G, 
in  the  Sixth  Battalion.  At  the  siege  of  Savannah,  Georgia, 
October  9th,  1779,  he  appears  as  in  command  of  the  Tliird 
Dattalion,  but  in  the  later  yeart^of  the  war  in  the  Second 
Battalion  as  its  lieu,tenant-colonel.  During  the  war  all 
his  property  in  Trenton  was  confiscated.  In  the  year  17S3 
he  resumed  his  profession  as  a  lawyer  in  St.  John,  New 
Brunswick,  and  in  after  years  took  a  seat  upon  the  supreme 
bench  and  was  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  Province. 
His  death  occurred  in  the  year  1806,  in  the  sixty-lifth  year 
of  his  age. 

Joseph  Barton. — This  officer  appears  on  the  rolls  of 
1778  as  in  command  as  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Fifth 
Battalion,  and,  in  the  following  year,  of  the  First  Battalion. 
He  was  captured  by  the  patriots  under  Generals  Stirling 
and  Sullivan,  on  Staten  Island,  August  22d,  1777.  He  left 
the  service  in  1781.  Very  little  is^known  of  his  personal 
history. 

Stephen  DeLancey. — He  was  of  the  illustrious  family 
of  that  name  in  New  York.  It  does  not  appear  why  he 
accepted  a  commission  in  a  New  Jersey  Regiment  as  lieu- 


If 


N  Till.;  Rkvoi.utionary   War. 


29 


tenant-coloMd  „f  the  First  Battalion,  but  hv  was  coaimis- 
•>ione(l  as  sueh  8i,ptember  5th,  177G,  while  he  was  a  pris- 
oner. On  the  evening  of  Juno  4th,  1776,  ho  was  celebrating 
Mie  birthday  of  George  III,  and  being  loud  inlns  expros- 
siouH  of  loyalty,  he  and  his  party  wore  arrested  by  the 
patriotic  citizens  of  Albany  and  given  in  !he  safe-keeping 
of  Governor  Triimbull  6f  Connecticut,  who  seems  to  have 
tal-en  charge  during  the  war  of  sucii  tories.  .  After  his 
njlease  he  was  again  comnnssioncd  lieutenant-colonel  of 
11  e  First  Battalion,  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  December  25th, 
1781,  and  so  continued  until  the  close  of  the  war.  After 
peace  was  declared  he  removed  to.  ho^a.  Scotia. 

Ed.ward  Vaughan  Dongan.— [Tq  was  the  youngest  son 
of  Walter  Dongan,  of  8taten  Island,  New  York.  He  held 
the  office  of  lieutenani-colonel  of  the  Third  Battalion,  and 
in  command  thereof  at  the  beginning  of  that  organization. 
In  the  skirmish  on  Staten  Island,  iiereinbefore  described, 
on  August  2;>d,  1777,  he  was  severely  wounded  -md  died 
yoon  after.  He  was  in  his  twenty^jinUi  M^ar  ut  I  he  time 
of  his  death,  and  the  record  of  the  times  calls  him  "  « 
young  gentlema.i  of  uncommon  merit,  boil,  ^3  a  man  and 
a  soldier." 


Klisha  L..vwKKi.CE.-Tbe  family  of  Lawrence,  in  Mon- 
inouth  county,  was  well  represented  in  th^-  Continental 
Army  and  the  militia  of  the  State,  in  the  Revolutionary 
^Va^.  John  Lawrence,  however,  a  land  surveyor,  was  an 
ardent  loyalist,  and  was  imprisoned  \\>v  his  conduct  during 
that  period,  and  his  son.  Dr.  John  Lawrence,  was  arrested 
'md  kept  in  Trenton  and  then  in  Morristown,  on  parole- 
The  Provincial  Congress  of  New  Jersey  on  July  17th,  1770, 


30 


Thk  Nkw  Jkhsky  Voluntkkkh  (Loyalists) 


1.  I 


had  an  interustinu  discussion  of  liis  cast).  Another  son, 
Elislm  Lawrence,  who,  in  1775,  was  slierifF  of  the  county, 
wavS  one  of  tint'  most  zealous  supporters  of  the  Crown.  In 
177r>,  at  the  ii^e  ol  twenty  six,  lie  was  made  the  command- 
ing officer  of  the  First  Battalion  o(  New  Jersey  Volunteers, 
with  the  .-ank  of  lieutenant-colonel,  having  been  very 
active  in  organizing  the  corps.  His  property  was  con- 
fiscated and  sold  April  5th,  1770.  In  tlie  .skirmisli  on 
Staten  Island,  August  22d,  1777,  he  Wiis  captured  by 
Colonel  Mattliias  Ogden  and  the  forces  under  Major-Geii- 
eral  John  SuUjvan,  and  his  connection  with  tlie  Jersey 
Volunteers  ceased  at  that  date.  After  the  war  Colonel 
Lawrence  removed  to  Nova  Scotia,  retiring  on  half  pay, 
and  lie  died  at  Cardigan,  Wales,  in  the  year  1811. 

John  Moukis. —  In  the  early  stages  of  the  war  be  was 
commissioned  as  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Second  Bat- 
tnlion,  New  Jersey  contingent  to  the  Royal  army,  and  he 
remained  in  the  service  until  1780.  His  services  <lo  not 
ap|)ear  very  prominent,  and  little  is  iiiiown  of  iiim  except 
tiiat  on  one  occasion  he  chose  to  disobey  tlie  orders  of  trhe 
commanding  general  of  the  British  Army,  who  had  directed 
him  to  destroy  some  salt  factories  in  Monnioutrjj,  county. 
Exercising  some  conscience  in  the  matter,  he  spared  cer- 
tain private  stores  and  only  levicni  on  public  proi)erty 
The  result  of  tliis  unmilitary  conduct  is  not  known  to  be 
on  recofd.  In  the  Constitutional  Gaze.tc,  of  August  2(>t)i, 
1776,  he  is  noted  as  b  iving  been  commissione.d  liiutenant 
colonel  on  the  17lli  i..-t  lie  formerly  served  in  the  Forty- 
seventh  Re'gimcni  of  the  British  Line. 


Abrah.\m  Van    Buskirk,  — He  entered   the  service  No- 


In  tiik  Rkvolutionary   VVak. 


31 


vember  lOtI,  177H.  with  the  rank  of  u.ajor,  unci  in  1778  he 
was  ,n  commission  a8  lieutenant-colonol  of  the  Fourth  Bat- 

;--;•  In  1782  and  in  1788  he  vvas  in  command  of  the 
1  nrd  Battahon.  He  distinguished  himself,  with  his  hat- 
tal.ou  at  th.,.  attack  on  Fort  Griswold,  in  the  harbour  of 
New  London,  Connecticut,  and  in  the  massacre  which  fol- 
owed,  and  is  spoken  of  in  report  by  Arnold  with  applause 
for  his  great- services.  He  did  not  remain  in  the  United 
^tates  after  the  war,  but  removed  immediately  toShdburne 
.Nova  Scotia,  and  became  mayor  of  the  citv. 


I?! 


Majors. 

John  ANTiLL.-Although  an  officer  of  this  name  held  the 
-""mission  of  major  in  the  Second  Battalion,  New  Jersey 
Volunteers,  ,n  1778  and  1770.  comparatively  nothing  is 
known  of  his  service  up  to  August  15th,  1780,  when  he  was 
ea«hiered  for  maKing  "false  returns  and  drawing  provis- 
'--tor  more  men  than  (he  effective  strength  of  his  bat- 
-^lion.  He  married  the  <J;u,ghter  of  Alexander  Golden 
surveyor-general  of  New  York. 

John  BAUNKs.~He  was  a  resident  of  Trenton,  New  Jer- 
■s^ y,  before  the  war.  and   was  high  sheriff  of  the  county  of 
lunterdon  up  to  July  18th,  1776.  when  he  was  superceded 
;y  the  Provincial   Congress  of   New  Jersey  because  he  re- 
cused to  execute  the  writs  issue.l  bv  its  authority.     His  res 
"!hh.  on  Queen,  now  Greene  street,  below  Front,  was  used 
t^y  General   Washington   on  , December  20th     1776    -is  his 
iH-adquarters.     In  the  beginning  of  the  organization  of  the 
^  olunteers  he  accepted  the  office  of  major  in  the  First  Bat- 
-'lion.     He  was  severely  wounded  August  22d,  1777,  at  the 


32 


TuK  Nkw  Jkkmky  Vol.intkicks  (Loyalists) 


ssune 


e  tiuio  Lieutcnant-Ooloiu'l  Doni^uii  was  wounded,  and 
.lied  August  31.s»,  1777,  "  niucli  lamunted  us  u  worlliy  man 
and  a  gallant  soldior." 

Danikl  Ihaac  niioWNic— Thero  is  nothing  known  oC  tin; 
military  record  of  this  offieor,  oxcept  that  he  htih'  tlie  office 
of  major  in  the  Fourth  Battalion  in  177S.  and  left  tlie  ser- 
vice that  same  year.  Nor  is  his  personal  history  known 
before  or  after  the  war. 

John  Com>en.— We  find  an  officer  of  this  nan»e  as  a 
major  in  the  Second  Battalion  New  Jersey  Volunteers  in 
1778  and  1779.  In  1782  we  find  him,  by  reason  of  c(»n8oli- 
datinn  of  the  battalion  a  captain  in  the  First  Battalion. 
He  is  believed  to  bo  a  grandson  of  Lieutenant  Governor 
(Golden.  [See  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Register,  Vol.  IV.,  Jan.,  1873,  page  171.] 

Robert  Dkummonu.— Few  men  did  more  to  make  General 
Skinner's  Brigade  a  numerical  success  than  Robert  Drum- 
mond.     He  spent  most  of  the  fall  of  1776  recruiting  for  the 
Volunteers,  was  very  successful  and  was  made  major  of  the 
T'.iird  Battalion   November  20th,   1776,  and   in   1782  and 
1783  of  the  Second   Battalion.     He   was  in   service  during 
the  whole  war.     A   large  number  of  the  men  enlisted  by 
him  fell  victims  to   fever  in   the  Southern  campaign.     He 
died  in  the  Chelsea  Hospital,  district  of  London,  --.ud  was 
buried    in    St.    Luke's    cluirchyard.    February    3d,    1789. 
Major  Drummond  lived  before  the   war  at  Acquackanonk 
Landing,  now   Passaic,   New  Jersey,  and    was  a   merchant 
and    shipper.       He    married,     April     1st,    1759,    Jennie, 
daughter  of  Elias   Vreeland.     A    portrait  of  him  is  still  ex- 


under 


hi 


In  thic  liEVOLurioNARY  Wah. 


88 


tant,  t^kori  in  London  in  1781,  wIiIpIi  rrpresents  him  in  the 
uniform  of  u  British  officer,  scarlet  coat,  blue  facings  and 
I'liffvest.  He  was  h  member  of  tlio  General  Assembly  of 
tbi  Province  of  New  Jersey  fro  i  1770  to  1774,  a  <:3i)utv  to 
the  Provincial  Congress  in  May,  1775,  and  again  in  October, 
1775,  in  January  and  June,  1776.  On  July  2d,  1770,  he 
voted  against  the  adoption  of  the  Con'-'  =  tution  of  the  State. 
In  1778  his  property  was  all  confiscated.  A  sketch  of  the 
life  of  this  officer  may  be  found  in  the  "  Paterson  Press  " 
of  January  iUst,  1877. 


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Thomas  Leonard.— This  man  was  one  of  the  first  of 
Jersey  tories.  He  resided  in  Freehold,  and  in  April,  1775, 
the  Committee  of  Inspection  proclaimed  that  he  must  be 
treated  as  a  "foe  to  the  rights  of  America."  We  find  him 
as  major  of  the  First  Battalion  in  1778,  and  leaving  the 
regiment  the  same  year.  After  the  war  he  lived  in  Neva 
Scotia. 


Thomas  Millidok.— Was  a  resident  of  Hanover  town- 
ship, Morris  county,  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  deputy  sur- 
veyor '"n  New  Jersey  by  appointment  of  the  King  before 
(he  wt  •.  In  the  course  of  the  numerous  surveys  he  made 
he  acquired  a  large  amount  of  very  valuable  real  estate. 
When  the  war  broke  out  he  joined  the  brigade  of  loyalists 
under  Skinner— it  is  thought  out  of  a  conscientious  regard 
for  his  sworn  allegiance  to  the  Crown.  He  was  commis- 
sioned major  of  the  Fifth  Battalion,  December  llth,  1776; 
was  made  made  major  of  the  First  Battalion  in  1779,  and 
.so  continued  until  the  end  of  the  war.  All  of  his  land  in 
New  .lersey  was  immediately  confiscated  by  the  ptttnois.  l/uyC^*^ 
At  the  close  of  the  war  he  settled   in    Nova  Scotia.     Only 


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84         Thk  Nkw  Jkumky  V'oi.irNTEERs  (Loyalists) 

once  did  he  return  to  Morris  county,  and  then  his  old 
iieiKhbours  j^ave  him  distiMctly  to  understand  tlmt  h*  was 
not  wanted  thore.  He  died  in  the  year  1816.  He  is 
always  represented  as  a  very  honorable  man,  firm  in  his 
convictions  of  duty  and  correct  in  his  habits  of  life. 

RiCHAKD  V.  Stockton.— Major  Stockton,  of  the  Sixth 
Rottalion  of  Vokmteers,  was  a  resident  of  Princeton,  and  a 
connection  of  the  tmtfistii!  family  at  "  Morven."     lie,  how- 


ever, was  a  tory  of  the  most  mulij^nttn^type,  and  his  privatt 
character  could  not  have  been  exemplary,  as  he  was  called 
"Double  Dick,"  on  account  of  sundry  unfair  transactions. 
Ill)  was  also  known  as  the  "  famous  land  pilot,"  because  of 
his  skill  as  a  guide  in  the  u^iinhabited  parts  of  New  Jersey. 
Colonel  John  Neilson,  of  the  Second  Regiment,  Middlesex 
Militia,  surj)rised  Major  Stockton  and  his  party  at  Law- 
rence Island,  on  the  morning  of  February  18th,  1777,  and 
took  sixty-three  prisoners.  Colonel  Neilson  was  promoted 
for  this  life  affair  to  a  general  officer,  and  Major  Stockton 
was  sent  by  General  Putman  in  irons  to  Philadelphia. 
Washington  said  of  him  that  he  had  been  "  very  active 
and  mischievous,  but  desired  that  he  should  be  treated  as 
a  captured  officer,  and  not  as  a  felon."  He  was  tried 
August  lath,  1780,  by  general  court-martial  for  the  murder 
of  Derrick  Amberman,  of  I^ong  Island,  found  guilty  and 
sentenced  to  suffer  death.  The  sentence  seems,  however, 
not  to  have  been  inflicted.  Some  account  of  his  villainous 
conduct  is  narrated  in  Sabine's  Loyalists,  Vol.  II,  page 
335.  After  the  war  he  .spent  the  balance  of  his  life  at  St. 
John,  New  Brunswick.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Joseph 
Hatfield,  of  Elizabethtown. 


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rioHKHT  TfMi'ANY— fTo  wns  ail  Inslmuiii  by  birth  an<l 
rucoivt'd  bis  tHluciition  at  tho  Univorsity  of  Glasgow,  lie 
came  to  Auioricu  in  1700,  lived  in  Pbilmielpbiu  several 
.\eiir8,  and  then  removed  to  fiergen  county,  New  Jersey, 
opening  a  school  at  Hackensack.  He  was  made  major -i 
the  Fourth  liattalion  in  1778.  Mo  was  a  very  ardent  sol- 
dier during  the  entire  war,  always  ready  to  serve  Ids  FCing, 
aijd  he  received  several  wounds  during  the  campaignH  in 
the  South.  He  attained  the  great  age  of  ono  hundred  and 
two  years,  dying  at  Yarmouth,  Nova  Scotia,  in  1844.  His 
name  on  the  records  is  often  written  Tenpenny. 

Philip  Van   Cortlandt.— He    was  of  tie   well-known 
Dutch  family  of  Van  Cortlandt,  who  took  such  a  prominent 
part  among  the  early  settlers  of  New  Amsterdam  as  land 
owners  on  the  Hudson  river.     His  birth  year  is  stated  as 
173t>.     Although  considered  a  resident  of  New  York,  he  is 
found  as  major  of  the  Thud  Battalion  of  Now  Jersey  \^)1- 
unieers,  December  11th,  177G,  and  he  remained  in  service 
for  all  (he  years  of  the  war.     He  must  bo  carefully  distin- 
guished froni  his  cousin,  Colonel  (afterwards  General)  Philip 
Van  Cortlandt,  of  the  Second  New  York  Continental  Regi- 
ment, or     from    Colonel    Philip   Van    Cortland,  of  Es.«'^x 
county,   New  ^■;^^z>^v-lio    commande<i    a   battalion    u.,d 
f'>ught  on    the   putiPiot  side  under  General    Heard   at  the 
battle  of  Long  Island.     The  property  of  Major  Van  Cort- 
landt was  all  confiscated,  and  he  fled  to  EnglamJ  after  the 
war,  dying  in  May,  1S14,  aged  seventy-four  years.     In  Sa- 
bine's Loyalists  will  be  found  an  account  of  bis  own  very 
large  family.     Four  ot   his  live  sons  were  ofiicers  in   the 
army  of  Great  Britain, 


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36         Thk  New  Jeusky  Voi.untkkrs  (Loyalists) 

Adjuta   ts. 

John  Atchison. — An  officer  by  this  name  was  commis- 
sioned April  25th,  1782,  as  an  ensign  and  adjutant  of  the 
First  Battalion.  He  liad  evidently  been  {)romoted  for  ser- 
vice in  the  ranks.     Nothing  is  known  of  his  history. 

Geoiige  Cypher— On  the  resignation  of  Adjutant  Thomp- 
son, Geoige  Cypher  was  made  adjutant  of  the  Second  Bat- 
talion, September  7th,  1783.  This  was  just  at  the  close  of 
the  war. 

Isaac  Heddkn.— He  was  a  lieutenant  and  adjutant  of 
the  Fifth  Battalion,  commissioned  July  29th,  1777,  and 
held  the  same  commission  in  the  First  Battalion  the  next 
year,  but  then  declined  t)ie  staff  position,  and  remained  in 
the  liii.  until  the  organization  was  disbanded.  He  was 
made,  so  Sabine  says,  clerk  of  the  House  of  Assembly  of 
the  Province  of  New  Brunswick. 

Patrick  Henry.— Mr.  Henry  was  lieutenant  and  adju- 
tant of  the  First  Battalion  until  late  in  the  fall  of  1778, 
when  he  was  dropped  from  said  office.  His  after  history 
is  not  known. 

John  Hyslop — He  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant  in 
the  Fourth  Battalion,  March  25th,  1777,  and  adjutant  of 
the  Third  Battali(..\,  June  1st,  1781,  and  as  such  remaintd 
until  peace  was  declired.  His  hi.'?tory,  or  that  of  his  family 
lias  not  been  found. 


OziAS  Insi.ey.— On   August  25lh,  1780,  he  appears  as  an 


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ensign  in  the  first  battalion  and  adjutant  thereof,  but  was 
supplanted  by  John  Atchison  as  adjutant,  in  April,  1782. 
His  military  service  otherwise  is  not  known.  With  other 
officers  he  left  for  Nova  Scotia  after  the  declaration '  of 
peace,  but  died  on  Staten  Island,  the  scene  of  his  military 
service. 

JoHx  Jenkins— On  the  rolls  of  the  Third  Battalion,  in 
1778,  we  find  the  name  of  this  officer  as  lieutenant  and 
and  adjutant,  commissioned  March  2Uth,  ^777,  and  he  liild 
the  line  office  in  the  Second  Battalion  until  the  end  of  the 
war,  although  John  Hyslop  takes  his  place  on  staff  duty  in 
1781.  Wo  find  his  name  after  the  war  as  a  resident  of 
New  Brunswick,  Caua'da,  and  a  grantee  of  the  city  of  St. 
John. 

Arthur  Maddox.— This  ofl3cer  was  a  captain  and 
adjutant  in  the  Fourth  Battalion  up  to  the  close  of  the  year 
1778,  and  is  then  dropped  from  the  i-olls  and  nothing  more 
is  known  of  him. 

Thomas  T.  Pkitchard.— He  cbmmenced  his  service  as  a 
lieutenant  and  adjutant  of  the  second  battalion  at  the 
opening  of  the  contest,  and  in  1780  is  lost  to  the  service. 

Cornelius  Thompson.— The  records  show  an  officer  of 
tliis  name  as  ensign  in  the  Second  Battalion,  March  24th, 
1777,  and  as  adjutant,  commissioned  June  29th,  1780.  He' 
was  promoted  a  lieutenant,  February  22d,  1783,  and 
resigned  his  commission  as  adjutant,  September  7th,  1783. 


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38         The  New  Jkksey  Volunteers  (Loyalists) 

Quartermasters. 

Fleming  ('olgan. — He  was  quartermaster  of  the  Fifth 
Battalion  m  177S,  but  (lot«  not  appear  in  the  Volunteers 
after  that  date. 

BARTHuLOMii;w  DouGHTY. — This  man  is  enrolled  as  quar- 
termaster of  the  Firpt  Battalion  in  1770. 

JoH>j  Falkkh  was  quartermaster  of  tlie  Third  Battalion 
from  its  organization  until  1781,  then  transferred  to  the 
Second  Battalion  and  resigned  February  22d,  1783. 


Daniel  James. — On  the  resignation  of  Quartermaster 
Falker,  Daniel  .James  took  his  otSce,  and  so  coutiimed 
until  the  Second  Battalion  was  disbanded.  He  was  origi- 
nally  a  resident  of  Philadelphia,  but  did  not  return  there 
after  the  v;ar.  It  is  believed  he  settled  in  Shelburne,  Nova 
Scotia. 

Thomas  Morrison. — He  was  ensign  and  quartermaster 
i^f  the  Second  bittalion  up  to  the  year  1778,  was  then  pro- 
moted lieutenant,  and  still  held  the  office  o{  (juartorraaster 
of  that  organization  in  1780. 

James  Nealson  was  lieutenant  and  quartermaster  of 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Lawrence's  First  Battalion  in  1778,  and 
afterward  a  captain-lieutenant  for  a  short  time. 


William  Sorrkll  entered  the  .service  of  the  King,  De- 
cember 24tli,  J 770,  when  lie  was  commissioned  quarter- 
master of  the   Fourth   Battalion.      He  was  also  commia- 


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sioned  an  ensign  and  quartermaster  of  the  Third  Battalion, 
July  31st,  1779,  and  so  continued  intil  peace  was  an- 
nounced. He  was  a  prisoner  of  war  in  Philadelphia, 
August  28th,  1779,  and  February  12th,  1780,  as  is  shown 
by  the  paroles  in  the  collections  of  the  Historical  Society 
of  Pennsylvania. 

Theodore  Vallkau  was  quartermaster  of  the  First 
iJattalion  for  a  short  time  after  the  death  of  Quartermaster 
VVaddington,  in  1782,  but  does  not  appear  on  the  rolls  the 
following  year. 

John  Waddington.— During  the  years  1780,  1781  and  a 
part  of  1782,  this  officer  was  the  quartermaster  of  the  First 
Battalion,  but  died  of  disease  during  the  last-mentioned 
year. 

Surgeons. 

Absalom  Bainbridge.— Dr.  Bain  bridge  was  born  at 
Maidenhead;  now  Lawronceville,  Mercer  county.  New  Jei- 
sey,  in  the  year  1742,  graduated  at  the  Princeton  College 
in  1762,  and  for  several  years  practiced  the  profession  of 
medicine  in  his  native  village.  In  1773  he  removed  to 
Princeton  and  was  elected  president  of  the  State  Medical 
Society.  In  1777  he  removed  to  Flatbush,  Long  Island, 
and  then  to  Now  York  city,  and  having  accepted  protec- 
tion from  the  Britisli,  he  was  commissioned  surgeon  in 
General  Skinner's  Brigade,  but  ceased  his  connection  there- 
with before  April,  1778.  He  was  the  great-grandfather  of 
the  late  Rev.  Dr.  John  Maclean,  for  many  years  president 
of  Princeton  College,  and  the  father  of  Commodore  William 


i  i 


I"         Thk  Ni.-vv  Jersry  Volunticicks  (Loyalists) 

Huinbndfj;^,  of  the  Uiiit(<I  States  Navy.  After  service  in 
tile  volunteers,  Dr.  Ikinljridf^e  resumed  his  practice  in 
New  York  and  died  there,  June  23d,  1807. 

Danibl  BANCRorr.— He  was  sur^^eon  of  the  Second  Bat- 
talion at  tiie  idosinjr  (hiys  of  the  war.  This  is  generally 
considered  'o  he  the  man  who  wa,s  eonlined  in  the  prison 
in  Pliihvdolphia  in  1777.  On  Iteinjr  ndeased,  ho  became  i\ 
more  ardent  tory  than  ever  before. 


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riKNRY  DoNOAN.— Tliis  officer  was  surgeon  of  the  Third 
P>attalion  u(>  to  1778  He  was,  no  doubt,  of  the  same 
family  as  the  dead  soldier,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Dongan. 
His  personal  history  cannot  now  be  ascertained. 

Chaulks  Eahlis. — At  the  beginning  of  the  war  he  was 
surgeon  of  the  Second  Bnttalion,  but  was  dropped  in  1781, 
and  on  April  24th,  1782,  we. find  him  restored  to  the  ser- 
vice, but  as  surgeon  of  the  First  Battalion. 

John  Hammell.  it  thu  beginning  of  the  war  we  find 
Dr.  Hammell  on  tlie  patriot  side,  and  July  24th,  177G,  he 
was  commissioned  surgeon's  mate  of  Colonel  Van  Cortland's 
Battalion  of  Heard's  Brigade,  New  Jersey  detached  militia. 
He  went  with  General  Heard's  command  to  re-inforce 
the  army  at  New  York,  and  in  his  professional  capacity 
t  .nk  part  in  the  battle  of  Long  Lslr.nd.  Soon  after  that  he 
professed  his  allegiance  to  Great  Britain  and  accepted  ser- 
vice in  the  fJritish  Army.  He  was  commissioned  surgeon 
of  the  Fourtli  Battalion,  New  .Jersey  Volunteers,  November 
25th,  177(1  In  the  fall  of  1777  he  was  captured  on  Staten 
Island  by  a  party  of  troops  under  Major-General  Philemon 


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41 


Oickinsoi),  who  oinramided  Iho  Now  Jersey  Militia  in  the 
ih'hl,  and  by  order  of  Ihv.  Council  of  ^afoty,  November 
:31st,  1777,  Ik;  was  fommitted  to  the  jail  for  high  treason. 
He  was  surgeon  of  the  Third   Battalion  at  the  dos^of  the 


war. 


UzAL  Johnson.— He  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
April  J7th,  17o7.  On  the  17th  of  1-Y^bruarv,  1776,  he  was 
c'ommissioned  surgeon  of  the  North  Battalion,  Second 
liogiment,  of  Essex  County  Militia.  When  the  colonies 
declared  theni.selves  independent,  he  retained  his  allegiance 
to  the  British  Crown,  and  soon  after  is  found  in  commis- 
sion as  surgeon  of  the  Fifth  Battalion  of  x\ew  Jersey  Vol- 
nnt..ers,  afterward  transferred  to  the  First  Battalion.  He 
went  with  the  New  Jersey  contingent  to  South  Carolina, 
and  was  of  great  service  to  the  wounded  at  King's  Moun- 
tain. He  lived  m  Newark  after  the  war.  and  died  there 
May  22d,  1827. 

William  Pktekson  was  surgeon  of  the  First  Battalion 
at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  m  the  Third  in  1779,  an.l  in 
■1782  in  e  Second  Battalion.  1  am  unable  to  find  any 
other  personal  record  of  him  than  that  he  was  once  taken 
{)risoner  on  Staton  Island  in  1777. 


Surgeon's  Mates. 

James  Boggs  was  surgeon's  mate  of  the  Second  Battalion 
•luring  the  tirst  two  years  of  the  war.  He  was  a  Pennsyl- 
vanian  by  birth  and  residence.  Me  continued  after  the 
war  as  surgeon  of  the  British  army  m  Canada,  was  made 
surgeon  of  the  garrison  at   Halifax,  November  22d,  1798, 


42  TiiK  Niow  Jkusky  Vomjntkkhs  (Loyalists) 


was  retired  on  half-pny    in    1814,  and   diod   in    Halifax    in 
1832,  nijiety-ono  years  of  age. 


IIaulicnbeck. — An   officer   of   this    naine,    willi 


Cliristian  name  unknown,  is  found  on  tiie  rolls  of  the 
Thii'I  Brittaiion  of  the  Volunteers  in  1782,  but  is  out  of  the 
serviw  ).i  1783. 

Stkphkn  Millidoe,  a  son  of  Ma)*)r  Millidge,  was  for 
several  years  surgeon's  mate  of  the  Fifth  Battalion,  but  he 
seems  to  iiave  tired  of  the  medical  profession,  for,  .September 
14tli,  1783,  he  is  found  in  c!ummipsion  as  ensign  in  tlio 
Second  Battalion. 

dn^PLAINS, 

Thomas  Barton  was  born  in  Ireland  in  the  year  1730. 
He  was  educated  at  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  and  in  1752 
he  came  to  live  in  Philadelphia.  In  1753  he  married  in 
that  city  the  sister  of  the  celebrated  David  Rittenhouse.  In 
1755  he  received  tlie  appointtnent  of  a  missionary  to  ti)e 
counties  of  York  and  Cumberland,  Pennsylvania.  In  the 
year  1758  he  became  chaplain  to  the  forces  under  General 
Forbes  after  the  defeat  at  Fort  Du  Quesne.  For  twenty 
year-^  thereafter  he  was  rector  of  the'  English  Church  at 
Lancaster,  Pennsylvania.  In  1770  he  received  the  degree 
of  Master  of  AYts  from  King's  College,  New  York.  When 
the  Revolutionary  War  opened  he  maintained  his  allegiance 
to  Great  Britain;  was  forced  to  abandon  his  patriotic  con- 
gregation, and  removed  to  New  York  c;ity  in  November, 
1778.  In  1779  he  became  chaplain  of  the  Third  Battalion, 
New  Jersey  Volunteers,  and  died  May  2oth,  1780,  in  New 


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43 


York  city,  aiiM  was  interred  in  the  clmncel  of  St.  George's 
Oiiapel. 

Daniel  Batwicll.— He  was,  October  25ll..  1778,  commis- 
sioned chaplain  of  the  Fourth  Battalion,  and  in  the  later 
years  of  the  wi. .  he  did  the  same  duty  in  the  Third  Battal- 
ion. He  vvas^a  resident  of  Pennsylvania,  being  rector  of 
H^piscopal  churciies  in  the  counties  of  York  and  Cumber- 
land. He  was,  in  177(5,  arrested  and  confined  in  the  prison 
at  York,  I'ennsyivania,  for  disloyalty  to  America.  He 
moved  his  family  into  New  York,  when  he  joined  the  Skin- 
ner's Greens,  and  on  the  declaration  of  peace  went  to 
England. 

Charles  Inglis  was  made  chaplain  of  the  Tirst  Battalion 
of  Volunteers,  Aprir2oth,  1781,  and  so  continued  until  the 
war  closed.  In  1783  he  moved  to  Halifax.  He  was  made 
the  Hrst  bishop  of  Nova  Scotia  on  August  12th,  1787,  and 
was  thereby  the  first  Colonial  Bishop  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land. He  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  at  Halifax,  Febru- 
ary 24tb,  181().  A  picture  of  Dr.  Inglis  may  be  found  on 
t)age  70  of  "Lawrence's  Incidents  in  Early  History  of  New 
Brunswick." 

Charles  Morgan.— On  December  24th,  1780,  Charles 
Morgan  was  made  chaplain  of  the  Second  Battalion,  but 
was  removed  in  June,  1783,  by  the  appointment  of  Mr. 
Sayre. 

John  Rowland.— At  the  organization  of  the  Second 
Battalion  this  minister  took  the  chaplaincy  and  remained 
therein   until    1781.     The  identity  of  this  man  with  John 


44         TiiK  Nkw  Jersey  Volunteers  (Loyalists) 

IlaiiiilLuii  Rowlaiul,  the  missionary  of  Episcopal  church  in 
I'eiui-ylva.iiii,  t-iuuiol   now  bo  dolermined. 

James  Sayrk.— Mr.  Sayre,  on  June  10th,  17S3,  took  Mr. 
Morgan's  place  as  chaplain  of  tlie  Second  Battalion  He 
was  a  rectv)r  of  the  Episcopal  church  in  Brooklyn,  aiMJ 
attended  also  to  his  duties  with  the  brigade  on  Staten 
Island.  Soon  after  this  he  removed  to  St.  John,  New 
Brunswick,  was  a  grantee  of  that  city  and  then  accepted  a 
charge  at  Newport,  Rhode  I.sland.  He  died  at  Fairtii;ld, 
Connecticut,  at  the  age  of  iifty-three,  in  the  year  1798. 

Edward  Win'slow  was  the  brigade-chaplain  of  Skinner's 
Brig.'i  3  until  the  year  1780,  when  lie  died  in  New  York, 
aged  fifty-nine.  His  successor  in  that  office  does  not 
appear  on  the  rolls.  He  was  a  Boston  man,  a  graduate  of 
Harvard  University.  He  was  of  the  Episcopal  denomina- 
tion and  was  one  time  settled  in  (^uincy,  Massachusetts. 
He  came  to  New  York  city,  escaping  from  the  patriotic 
feeling  in  his  church,  and  there  he  formed  the  friendship 
of  General  Skinner^nd  so  joined  his  forces  as  stated. 

Captains. 


David  Alston.— He  was  captain  in  the  Third  Battalion 
in  1778,  but  resigned  the  same  year, 

John  BAUBARiE.--He  was  born  in  the  year  1751  and  in 
1776  organized  a  company  for  Skinner's  command,  com- 
missioned first  as  a  lieutenant  and  then  was  made  a  cap- 
tain in  the  First  Battalion  December  31,  171^.  He  was 
captured  on  Staten  Islantl,  iu  1777,  and  lodged  in  the  gaol 


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at  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  In  1779  he  seems  to  have  been 
<lr()p|,e(l  from  the  rolls,  but  restored  to  commission  in  1782 
and  1783,  bnt  in  the  Seeo-ul  Battalion.  He  enjoyed  the 
reputation  of  being  a  brave  and  gallant  soldier,  [n  the 
eani|)  ■  Ml  in  the  South  he  was  twice  wouiuled,  once  at  the 
siege  of  Fort  Ninety-Six,  in  South  Carolina,  May  22d.  178J, 
and  Hfe-ain  at  the  battle  of  Eutaw  Springs,  South  Carolina, 
♦September  8th,  1781.  After  the  declaration  of  peace  he 
n.'sided  at  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  and  died  in  the  year 
1818. 

Benjamin  Barton.— This  officer  was  a  captain  in  the 
Fifth  Battalion  in  1778,  but  with  that  year  his  militiny 
service  ceased. 

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Uriah  Blkau.— On  January  13th.  1777,  lie  was  commis- 
sioned .-i  captain  in  tl)e  Second  Battalion,  but  the  following 
year  he  appears  as  an  ensign,  first  in  the  Second  Battalion 
and  then  in  the  Third  Battalion  and  so  continues  until  the 
end  of  the  war.  In  the  battle  of  Eutaw  Springs,  Sou ih 
Carolina,  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  tiie  forces  under  Geu- 
eral  Nathaniel  Greene. 

Wai.dron  Bleau.— This  oiluei  was  a  resident  of  the 
city  of  New  York,  but  was  nmde  captain  in  the  Second 
liattalion  November  23d,  1776,  and  July  24thM781,  tran.s- 
ferred  as  captain  to  the  Third  Battalion.  He  was  in  the 
volunteers  during  the  whole  war.  All  his  property  in 
Now  York  was  confiscated,  and  he  died  in  St.  John,  that 
great  city  of  refuge  for  tories,  within  a  week  after  his  arrival 
;here  in  1783. 


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Tin-;  Niav  Jicksky  Vof.tiNTKKHH  (Loyamsts) 


I    i 


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Danihl  Bkssonkt  ivn!?  a  cnptuin  in  tiie  Fuurtli  Battalion 
until  1779,  wli-on  ho  loll,  the  -orvice.  He  belonp;efl  to  the 
family  ol  that  iiaino  residing  in  Bristol,  Bucks  county, 
i^ennsylvania. 

Donald  Campuki.l  whs  a  captain  in  tho  .Second  until 
1781  and  then  captain  in  tho  Third  Battalion  from  July 
'24th,  1781,  and  so  remained  until  the  close  of  tho  war 

Pathick  Campp.kll. — He  commenced  his  service  in  1777 
as  a  cai>t;un  in  the  Fourth  Battalion,  in  the  Third  in  177i>, 
aid  captain  in  the  Second  Baltalion  in  1781  and  1782. 
He  left  the  service  on  the  declaration  of  peace.  He  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  the  Southern  cam|)aigu,  especially  at 
King's  Mountain,  where  he  was  severely  wounded,  and  at 
the  siege  of  Fort  Ninety-Six. 

Peter  Campbell  was  a  resident  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey, 
before  the  war.  In  a  letter  addressed  by  Colonel  Josoi)li 
Fieed,  Washington's  adjutant-general,  to  the  Council  ol 
Safety  of  Pennsylvania,  dated  Jiinuary  1st,  1770,  (should 
be  1777),  Pennsylvania  Archives,  First  Series,  \'ol.  V.,  |) 
151,  it  appears  that  he  was  arrested  and  sent  to  Philadel- 
phia because  he  had  "  been  appointed  a  captain  in  a  new 
regiment  proposed  to  hi  raised  for  the  king's  service.'' 
General  Washington  desired  him  to  be  "  closely  confined.'- 
He  was  at  that  time  a  cantain  in  the  Sixth  Battalion,  hav- 
ing been  commissioned  uoh  December  21st,  1770.  He 
was  killed  at  the  fight  on  Hrewti)n's  Hill,  near  Savannah, 
Georgia,  December  2ytli,  1778. 

Richard  Cayford. — In  the  minutes  of  the  Committee  of 


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Safety  of  (.,e  Province  of  New  Jersey,  JH.niarv   12tl.,  1770 
wo  find  a  memorial  coneerninR  tl.t  arrest  of  this  man  with 
two  other  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Cumberland,  "  con- 
.  vieted    of  bein^r  enemies  to    this  country,  by    using  their 
H.lluence  with  the  ignorant  and  unwary  to  raise  a  party  to 
oppose  the  measures  adopted  for  ro.hms  of  grievances,  curs- 
■ni,'  and  ill-treatingall  Congresses  and  committees. and  refus- 
ni^'  to  give  any  reasonable  satisfaction  for  their  extraordi- 
nary conduct."    It  was  found  necessary  by  the  committee  to 
"  use  spirited  exertions  for  the  .liscouragcment  of  such  base 
behaviour."     Cayford  was  then,  placed  in  close  confinement 
required  to  pay  charges  of  apprehension  and  give  security 
for  his  good  behaviour  in  the  sum  of  fifty  pounds.     Never- 
theless his  toryism  was  too  strong  for   prison  bars  or  legal 
l>onds  and  he  next  appears  in  the  following  year  as  a  cap- 
'a.n  m  thel^^irst   Battalion    New  Jer.sey    Volunteers.     He 
remained  in  this  organization  until  1781. 

William  Chandlkr,  was  the  son  of  the  celebrated  Epis- 
coi.al  divine,  Rev.  Thomas  B.  Chandler,  D.  D.,  of  Eli.abeth- 
town,  New  Jersey.  He  was  born  in  May,  1756,  and  graduated 
at  King's  College  in  the  class  of  1774.  He  died  in 
England,  October  22d,  1784.  He  was  appointed  a  captain 
'"  ihc  volunteers  on  Staten  Island,  April,  1777,  but  in  1770 
I",-  :.  •  '  not  received  his  commission  as  such.  He  was  con- 
sidered a  tory  of  the  most  conspicuous  character  A  sketch 
of  bus  father  is  to  he  found  in  Dr.  Hatfield's  History  of 
Elizabeth,  page  537. 


John  Cou..LE.-He  was  a  resident  of  Pennsylvania  in 
17/0,  but  u'l  1770  joined  the  xNew  Jersey  Volunteers  and 
was  made  a  lieutenant  in   the   Fifth   Battalion.     On  July 


Is  Tjik  Ni.;w  .Ikuhkv   Vor.i'NTi- kus  (Lovamsis) 


1 

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I  I 


-iHli,  177^",  he  way  promotod  ca|)taiii  in  tlif  First  Uiittalion, 
aiul  so  continued  until  the  elnso  of  tlie  war.  He  died  in 
I  lie  province  of  New  HruuHwick  in  1819,  at  the  n^e  of 
seventy-three. 

Danfkl  C'ozKNS  was  a  captain  in  the  Third  Battalion  of 
Volunteers  December  25th,  1778.  He  diHtin;;uished  him- 
self greatly  us  a  zealous  ofljcer  of  the  (!rown,  and  in  tho 
siege  of  Savannah,  October  9th,  1779,  '  .sL  his  life.  For 
som.>  unexplained  reason  he  ajipears  on  the  roster  of  the 
Second  Battalion  until  tho  end  of  the  war. 

JosEPii  Ckowem,  was  a  ca[)!ain  in  the  Fifth  Battalion 
December  (Uh,  1776.  Iti  1779  and  tliereafter  ho  was  a 
ekplain  in  the  First  Battalion.  He  was  a  resident  of  Mid- 
dletown,  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey,  before  the  war. 
His  property  was  confis'-ated  and  sold  March  22d,  1779. 
He  was  orderi'd  on  one  occasion  to  execute  an  officer  who 
had  never  been  tried,  but  so  great  was  the  protest  against 
it  that  the  order  was  countennanded.  He  removed  his 
family  to  the'province  of  New  Brunswick  after  the  war, 
and  he  died  there. 

Edward  Earlk. — He  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant  in 
the  Fovvtl  Battalion  November  22d,  1770,  and  on  July  8d, 
1781,  made  captaii.  in  the  Third  Battalion.  He  served 
during  the  whole  war,  and  then  moved  his  f;\mily  to  New 
Brunswick,  and  died  in  tluit  colony. 

Patrick  Haggkrty  was  commissioned  an  ensign  in  the 
Fifth  Battalion  in  177(3,  lieuienai  *  iii  First  Battalion, 
1779,  and  made  captain  tli.neir.  Dec  mber  25tii,  1781.     He 


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In  tiik  Ukvolutionahy  Wai!. 


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settled  in  Digby,  Novu  Scotiu,  in  1783,  uiul  diotl  tluiv 
attur. 


HOOll 


Chaklks.    .Iaruk-'N   was   a    resident   of    Trenton,   New 
Jersey,   before    the    war.     On   the    Ist    of  J-rmary,    1777, 
Adjutant-General  Joseph   Reed  sent  bini  as  a   prisoner  to 
the   (buncil  of  .Safety  of   IMiihulelidna,  as  one  who  "  had 
taken   a   connniand   (m-  at>nointment  as  eaplain    in   a  new 
regiment  pro[.osed  to  h-    vised  under   Isaac  AlLn  for  the 
the  King's  service."     He      .s  a  prisone.   at  York,  PeniiHyJ. 
v.mia,  in   July.    1778.      [|e  must   have  eseaped    from  this 
custody,  for  he  served  as  a  captain  in   the  Wixth    Battalion 
of  the  Volunteers  in   tht-  fall  of  1778,  then  as  captain  in 
the  Third,  and   after   1781    in   the  Second    Battalion.     In 
later  vears   he  became  a  grantee  of  the  city  of  St.  John, 
New  Brunswick. 

CoKNELius  Hatfield,  Jr.— Few  Jersey  men  carried  tlicir 
loryiam  to  the  extent  of  this  otlicer.  He  seemed  to  have  a 
special  hatred  to  his  own  townsmen  of  Elizabethtown.  Dr. 
Hatfield's  history  of  that  place  has  many  references  to  his 
had  conduct.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  volunteers  up  to  the 
.-ummer  of  1778.  He  was  at  one  time  thought  to  have  been 
a  party  to  the  murder  of  a  Mr.  Ball,  and  fled  from  the 
country  during  the  latter  years  of  tlie  war.  In  1789  he  re- 
turned to  the  United  States  and  was  arrested  for  the  crime 
but  escaped  punishment  by  rea.son  of  the  terms  of  the  treaty 
of  peace  of  1788.     lit  died  in  England  at  an  advanced  age. 

John  Hatfikld  was  a  captain  in  the  Third  Battalion  in 
1778,  but  docs  not  afterward  appear  in  service.  He  cannot 
now  be  identified  with  the  John  Smith  Hatfield   of  Eliza- 


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The  New  Jersey  Volunteers  (Loyalisth) 


beth  Town,  New  Jerse}',  who  has  a  very  similar  record  of 
murder  and  cruelty,  as  Cornelius  Hatfield,  Jr.  [See  Sabine's 
Loyalists,  Vol.  I,  p.  524.] 

Samuel  Heydfn  was  a  captain  in  the  Fourth  Battalion 
under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Van  Buskirk.  Fie  was  captured 
in  February,  1777,  gave  his  parole— which  he  broke—was 
taken  and  sent  by  Colonel  Weeden,  of  Virginia,  adjutant- 
general  of  the  American  Army  from  Morristowu,  New 
Jersey,  February  26lh,  1777,  to  the  Committee  of  Safety, 
with  the  remark  that  a  "  proper  attention  to  him  may  be 
found  necessary."  He  seems  to  have  received  proper  atten- 
tion, for  he  does  not  appear  afterward  in  the  service. 

Samuel  Hudnot,  a  captain  in  the  Third  Battalion  until 
the  summer  of  1779.     Notliing  more  known  of  him. 

Thomas  J  l'Nlock  was  h  captain  in  the  Third  Battalion, 
commissioned  December  2(5th,  1778,  but  transferred  as  cap- 
tain, in  1781,  to  the  Second  Battalion,  and  so  remained  to 
the  end.  of  the  war.  He  was  a  half- pay  officer  on  the  British 
lists  at  New  Brunswick  after  1783.  His  place  and  date  of 
death  unknown. 

William  Hutchinson  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Fifth,  then 
11)  the  First,  tiien  a  captain-lieutenant  in  tlie  First  Battalion, 
April  ■J5tli,  1782,  and  the  followirjg  year  was  made  captain 
in  the  san)e  organization.  He  was,  after  the  war,  a  retired 
half-pay  officer  of  the  Grown.     He  died  in  Upper  Canada. 

Garret  Keating.— This  officer  was  a  captain  in  the 
First  Battalion  m  1777,  1778  and  1779,  and  then  left  the 


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service.  A  man  by  tiiis  name  was  in  the  gaol  at  Trenton, 
New  Jersey,  in  1777,  and  this  is  believed  to  have  been' 
the  same  officer. 

Joseph  LEE.-On  the  26th  of  June,  1776,  the  Provincial 
Congress  of  New  Jer.-sey  ordered  Colonel  Abraham  Ten 
Eick,  of  Somerset  county,  to  arrest  him.  It  was  done  ;  and 
on  the  2d  of  July  he  was  apprehended  as  a  disaffected  per- 
son and  ordered  to  be  confined  in  the  common  gaol  of  Tren- 
ton. He  was  also  fined  one  hundred  pounds.  He  is  found, 
however,  soon  after  this,  December  loth,  1776,  as  a  captain' 
in  the  Sixth  Battalion,  Skinner's  Brigade,  warring  against 
the  independence  of  the  States.  In  1779  he  was  transferred 
to  the  Third  Battalion,  and  in  1781  tc  the  Second,  where 
we  find  his  name,  still  as  captain  at  the  close  of  the  war. 

Samuel  Leonard.— This  officer  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
First  Battalion  until  August  14th,  1781.  when  he  was  pro- 
moted captain  in  the  same  organization.  His  service  ex- 
tended over  the  whole  term  of  the  war. 

.  John  Lo.XGSTREET  was  a  captain  in  the^First  Battalion 
Mio  first  year  of  the  war,  but  was  captured  on  St«ten  Island 
and  confined  in  the  gaol  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  He  never 
returned  to  the  servicJe. 

Alexander  McDonald  was  a  captain  in  the  First  Bat- 
talion after  October  18th,  1782.  He  died  in  New  Bruns- 
wick in  1835,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two. 

CoKNKLius  McLeod  WHS  a  Captain  in  the  Second  Battalion 
'intil'  1780,  and  then  leaves  the  .service. 


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3t     f 


Norman  McLeod  wag  on-olled  as  captain  of  the  Secoiul 
Hattalion,  January  30th,  1778,  hut  liis  name,  for  some 
reason  unknown,  is  dropped  in  1779.  But  July  24th,  1781, 
iie  was  re-commissioned  as  captain  in  the  Third  Battalion, 
and  so  continued  until  peace  was  declared.  He  evidently 
belonged  to  the  well-known  family  of  that  name  in  Eliza- 
beth Town,  New  Jersey. 

^Peter  Ruttan.— a  captain  in  the  Fourth  Battalion  in 
1777,  and  transferred  to  the  Third  Battalion  in  1781.  The 
closing  year  of  the  war  he  was  not  in  commission. 

Samuel  Ryerson,  of  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  He  was  a 
captain  ir.  the  P^ourth  Battalion,  March  25th,  1777,  and  in 
1782  in  the  Third  Battalion.  He  had  a  'brother  Josei-h,  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Prince  of  Wales  Volunteers.  He  took 
part  in  the  battle  of  King's  Mountain,  South  Carolina,  Oc- 
tober 7th,  1780,  and  was  wounded.  He  lived  in  Canada 
after  the  declaration  of  peace. 

James  Shaw  commenced  his  service  in  the  volunteers  as 
captain  in  the  Fifth  Battalion,  and  in  tl>e  fall  of  1778  he 
was  transferred  to  First  Battalion.  He  was  mortally 
wounded  in  the  battle  of  Eutaw  Springs,  South  Carolina, 
September  8th,  1781. 


George  STANFORTH.-ThLs  officer  was  captain  in  the 
Second  Battalion  until  1780,  and  alter  this  date  nothing  is 
known  of  him. 


g  IS 


John  Taylor   was   born  May   15th,   1742,  near  Amboy, 
New  Jersey.     He  ai,pears  al  the  close  U  the  war  as  a  cap- 


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toil)  in  the  First  Battalion,  commissioned  October  15th, 
1780.  He  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  i?amo  organization  from' 
1776  to  date  just  named.  He  distinguished  himself  in  the 
King's  Mountain  fight.  It  is  quite  probable  that  he  was  a 
son  of  Sheriff  John  Taylor,  of  Monmouth  county.  New 
Jersey. 

Bartholomew  Thatcher  was  confitied  in  Trenton  gaol 
July  2d,  177G,  at  the  same  time  as  Captain  Joseph  Lee. 
He  became  a  captain  in  the  Third  Battalion  of  the  Volun- 
teers, September  10th,  1778,  and  after  1780  did  the  same 
duty  in  the  Second  Battalion. 

^  William  Van  Allen  was  commissioned  captain  in  the 
Fourth  Battalion,  November  23d,  1776.  In  1780  he  is 
found  in  the  same  office  in  the  Third  Battalion  and  served 
until  peace  was  dedared. 

Jacob  Van  Buskirk  was  the  son  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Van  Buskirk.  He  was  enrolled  at  the  beginning  of  the  war 
and  was  commissioned  a  captain  in  theThird  Battalion  of  the 
New  Jersey  Volunteers,  May  13th,  1780.  He  was  captured 
111  November,  1777,  by  the  troops  of  General  Philemon 
Dickinson.  In  the  battle  of  Eutaw  Springs,  South  Caro- 
lina, September  8th,  1781,  he  m.s  severely  wounded. 

John  Willia.v^  was  a  captain  in  the  Fifth  Battalion  in 
1778.  He  was  the  officer  who,  by  order  of  General  Skinner, 
marked  houses  in  Monmouth  county  with  an  "  R,"  so  that 
the  tories  would  know  who  their  foes  were  and  whom  they 
were  at  liberty  to  annoy. 


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54         Tfiic  Nkw  Jkrsky  Voluntkkrs  (Loyalists) 

Captain- Lieutenants. 

John  Alston  was  a  captain-lientenant,  in  the  Third  Bat- 
talion until  1779.  No  particuhirs  of  his  service,  or  life 
afterward,  are  now  known. 

Joseph  CunlIfp  was  a  lieutenant  in  1770,  and  then  cap- 
tain-lieutenant April  25th,  1782,  in  the  Pirst  Battalion 
until  the  declaration  of  peace, 

Edward  Steblr.— This  officer  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Sixth  Battalion,  May  28th,  1778,  in  the  Third  in  1779,  then 
promoted  caf»tain-lieutei\ani  in  the  Second  Battalion,  and 
so  continued  until  the  close  of  the  war.  -• 

Lieutenants. 

Charles  Babbington.— This  officer  was  a  lieutenant  in 
the  Second  Battalion  of  the  Volunteers  in  1779. 

fJENRY  Barton  was  an  ensign  in  the  First  Battalion  in 
1780  and  1781,  and  prom(>ted  lieutenant  Octoher  25th, 
1782,  He.  remained  in  service  until  the  end  of  the  war. 
He  was  a  son  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Joseph  Barton. 

James  Brittain  was  born  in  1752  and  was  one  of  the 
earliest  of  Jersey  tories.  He  was  very  much  hated  by  his 
neighbours  and  they  did  everything  to  torment  and  injure 
him.  At  last  he  joined  the  armed  loyalists,  with  a  party 
of  recruits,  and  was  commissioned  an  ensign  in  the  First 
Battalion  in  1770,  and  promoted  a  lieutenant  April  25th, 
1782.     He  was  considered  a  brafe  officer,     On  one  occa' 


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sion  he  was  taken  prisoner  and  sentenced  to  death,  but  lie 
escaped  just  before  the  dale  fixed  for  his  execution  and  re- 
joined his  command      He  died  in  the  year  1838. 

William  Chew  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Third  Battalion 
in  1778,  and  in  the  Second  Battalion  until  August  15th, 
1782,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the  Garrison  "Battalion," 
with  same  rank.  He  was  placed  on  half  pay  in  1783,  and 
lived  in  New  Brunswick  until  his  death,  in  the  year  1819, 
at  the  age  of  ninety-four.  His  name  appears  ,n  the  army 
list  that  year  for  the  last  time. 

John  Coomb ks  was  born  in  1752;  was  a  lieutenant  in 
the  Third  Battalion  September  10th,  a 778,  and  transferred 
to  the  Second  Battalian  in  1781.  He  died  in  New  Bruns- 
VNick  in  the  year  1827 

Richard  Cooprr  was  made  an  ensign  in  the  Third  Bat- 
talion in  1781,  and  a  lieutenant  in   the  Third    Battalion 
October  25th,  1782.  ' 

John  DfiMoNZEs—An  officer  by  this  name  appears  in 
the  Second  Battalion  from  1777  to  1780.    Nothing  is  known    ^ 
of  his  service.     Even  the  spelling  of  his  name  is  doubtful. 

Justus  Earle  was  commissioned  an  ensign  in  the  Fourth 
Battalion  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  and  promoted  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Third  Battalion  December  18th,  1781. 
In  August,  1779,  he  appears  as  a  prisoner  of  war  in  Phila- 
delphia, but  he  was  afterwards  exchanged  and  rejoined  his 
command. 


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Thk  New  Jersey  Volunteers  (Loyalists) 


John  Ford  was  a  lieutenant  in  tlie  Second  Battalion  in  the 
the  year  1777.  He  was  dismissed  from  the  service  in 
Philadelphia  May  3d,  1778,  for  "conduct  mioecoming  a 
gentleman,"  as  we  learn  from  General  Clinton's  order  book. 

Francis  Frazek  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Third  Battalion 
in  1778. 

James  Harrison.— A  lieutenant  in  the  Third  Battalion 
May  28th,  1778,  and  in>178U  in  the  Second  Battalion.  He 
remained  in  service  to  the  end  of  the  war.  He  fled  to  St. 
John,  New  Brunswick,  and  was  made  a  grantee  of  that 
city.    • 

John  HattoN  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Sixth  Battalion  May  28th,  1778.  In  1779  he  appears  in 
the  Third,  and  in  1780  in  the  Second  Battalion.  He  never 
rose  to  any  liigher  office.  He  was  severely  wounded  in 
the  siege  of  Fort  Ninety -Six,  South  Caroliua,  May  22d, 
1781. 

Anthony  Hollinshead  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Third 
Battalion  up  to  January,  177*9,  whi^n  he  left  the  service. 

Christopher  Tnsley.— He  started  with  the  Fifth  Bat- 
talion, but  he  left  the  line  in  1778. 


George  Lambert,— He  was  enrolled  January  1st,  1777, 
commissioned  in  the  Second  Battalion  in  1779  as  a  lieu- 
tenant, and  transferred  as  such  to  the  Third  Battalion 
July  20tli,  J 781,  and  so  remained  untii  peace  was  declared. 


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57 


John  Lawrknce,  an   ensign  in    the   First   Battalion    in 
1779,   made  a   lieutenant  in   ti,e   First   Battalion,   Angust 
2oth.  1780,  and  remained  i.i  service  the  rest  of  the   war 
^heriff  John   Lawrence,  of  Mo.nnouth  county.  New  Jersey 
had  a  son  John  Lawrence,  a  verv  distingiKshed  physician' 
about   whom   Sabine  in    his  "  Loyalists."  Vol.  11.  page  2 
gives  a  long  and  interesting  .ketch,  and  Mr.  Salter,  in   his' 
Old  Times  in  Monmouth  County,"  gives  a  very  minute 
account,  but  it  is  not  possible  now  to  identify  Doctor  Law- 
rence as  this  Lieutenant  Lawrence.     Yet  there  are  many 
circun.stances  which  n.ake  me  believe  they  are  the  same 
man. 

Enoch  Lyon  was  commissioned  H  lieutenant  in  the 
Ihird  Battalion.  September  lOth,  1778.  but  \n  1780  was 
transferred  to  the  Second  Battalion  and  .so  remained. 

Donald  McPhkkson  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Fourth 
Batta hon  in  1778.  He  afterwards  became  a  captain  in  the 
British  Legion. 


James  Moody.-Hc  was  born  in  1744.     A  farmer  before 
tbe  wais  of  quiet  habits  and  unpreten.ling  life.     His  loyalty 
to    he  King  was  sincere,  and  his  ^fc,  neighbours  exhib- 
ited  their  opinion  of  him  in  a  mo.st  decided  manner.     This 
became  so  annoying  that  in  1777  he  joined  the  loyal  troops 
of  New  Jersey,  was  ,nade  an  ensign  in  the  First  Battalion 
'M  I7.y.and  August  14th.  1781.  a  lieutenant  in  tne  First 
Battaho.i.     From  that  moment  he  became  the  uncompro- 
mising foe  of  freedom,  and  "Moody  is  out."  was  the  cry  in 
:u)y  locality  in  New  Jersey  which   was  the  scene  of  antici- 
pated  rapine  and  pillage.     His  personal  achievements  in 


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Thf:  Nkw  Jkrsky  Voluntkkrs  (Loyalists) 


the  military  service  are  minutely  (letailed  in  "Snbine's 
Loyalists."  On  one  occasion  he  attempted  tljecai)ture  of  Gov- 
ernor Livinj^ston,  and  his  orders  from  Lieutcnant-Genenil 
Knyplmusen,  May  10th,  1780,  may  be  found  in  "Moore's 
Diary  of  the  American  Revolution,"  Vol,  LI,  pac;(»  307.  At 
another  time  he  was  himself  taken  by  General  Anthony 
Wayne,  and  suffered  much  cruelty  from  his  captors,  but 
finally  broke  his  guard  and  escaped.  He  still  continued  his 
attacks  upon  the  pi>ttiott»,  and  was  often  employed  as  a  .spy  on 
their  movements.  Notwithstanding  all  his  years  of  hardships 
he  was  never  promoted  above  a  subaltern  in  the  military 
service.  It  is  difficult  to  understand  now  wiiy  this  was  not 
done.  All  his  pro[)erty  in  New  Jersey  was  confiscated.  In 
1783  a  "Narrative  of  his  exertions  and  sufferings  in  the 
cHuse  of  government,"  was  published  in  London,  an<]  is 
believed  to  have  been  dictated  by  him.  An  interesting 
and  very  full  sketch  of  his  life  will  be  found  in  Salter's 
"Old  Times  in  Old  Monmouth."  lie  died  .n  1809,  in 
Weymouth,  Nova  Scotia. 

John  Monro. — He  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  First  Battalion 
in  1778,  but  his  record  is  not  known. 


Thomas  Oakason. — His  service  exactly  like  Lieutenant 
Monro. 


JosiAH  Parkbr. — Lieutenant  in  the  Second  Battalion 
December  23d,  1770,  and  transferred  to  the  Third  Battalion 
July  20th,  1781.  He  was  in  commission  in  the  volunteers 
during  the  whole  war. 


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59 


RoBEHT  Pkterson  whh  a  lieutenant  in  the  First  Battalion 
the  first  two  years  of  the  war. 


John  RK.u.-This  officer  was  a  licKonanl  in  the  Fifth 
B^ittalion  in  1777  and  1778,  and  in  the  First  Battalion  froui 
1779  to  1783. 


Martin  Rykrson  was  a   lieutenant   ia    the  Fourth  Bat- 
talion until  1780. 


Jamks  Servanier  waa  made  a  lieutenant  in  the  Fourth 
Battalion  January  2d,  1777,  transferred  in  1780  to  the  Third 
and  remained  therein  until   the  end  of  the  war.     He  died 
I'l  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  in  the  year  1803. 

Da.mel  8HANNON.-A  lieutenant  in  the  Fifth  Battalion 
in  1/78.     Nothing  is  known  of  his  history. 

John  SiMONsoN.-An  ensign  in  the  Fourth  Battalion  in 
177/  and  1778,  commissioned  a  lieutenant  in  the  Thir.l 
Battalion  August  25th,  1780.  where  he  remained  until  peace 
was  declared,  when  he  removed  to  the  Province  of  New 
Brunswick  and  died  there.  He  was  a  prisoner  of  war  in 
1  liiladelphia  in  August,  1779. 


Michael  Smith  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Fourth  Battali 
in  1777  and  part  of  1778,  but  is   then   dropped    from   th 
rolls. 


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William  STKVENsoN.-Com missioned  a  lieutenant  in 
Second  Battalion  of  the  Volunteers  December  '>8d  177G  • 
native  of  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey.     A  lieutenant  in' 


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Thk  Nkw  .hcRSKY   V0LUVTKKR8  (Loyalists) 


fit 


the  Third  Battalion  July  20fli,  1781.  Ko  (liHtiiij,ruislie(l 
himself  in  the  King's  Mountain  fi^jht  and  at  siege  of 
Oharloston.  Ho  died  at  Weymouth,  Nova  Scotia,  in  1818, 
at  an  advanced  age. 


AiVDRBVv  Stockton  was  a  lioutenanl  in  the  First  Battal- 
ion at  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  [)robably  an  enlisted 
man  during  the  years  prior  to  1782,  and  is  the  soldier  who 
was  taken  prisoner  on  Staten  Island  August  22d,  1777,  and 
eonlined  in  the  Trenton  gaol. 

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John  Tuompson  was  made  an  ensign  in  the  First  Battal- 
ion in  1777,  and  a  lieutenant  in  the  same  organization  Au- 
gust 25th,  1780. 

John  TnROdKMouTON.— .A  lieutenant  in  the  First  Battal- 
ion the  tirst  year  of  the  war.  He  had  the  same  fate  as 
Lieutenant  Stockton  ;  but,  unlike  him,  did  not  return  to  the 
service. 

John  Tkoup.— A  lieutenant  in  the  Third  Battalion,  Vol- 
unteers.    He  is  on   the  list  of  those  severely  wounded  .U 

» 

Eutaw  Springs,  South  Carolina,  September  8th,  1781. 

William  Turner.— A  lioutenant  in  the  Third  Battalion 
March  20th,  1778.  He  does  not  appear  on  the  rolls  of 
1780--17S2,  but  is  found  in  commission  in  the  Second  Bat^ 
talion  at  the  dissolution  of  that  command. 


John  Van  Buskirk— no  doubt  a  member  of  the  Berf^en 
county  family  of  that  name— was  made  a  lieutenant  De- 
cember  7th,   J  776,  of  Lieutenant  Colonel   Van    Buskirk's 


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61 


Fourth  Battalion,  and.  with  him.  was  trarisferre.l  to  the 
Third  Battalion.  Although  with  this  family  influencoan.l 
a  service  of  seven  years,  ho  did  not  advance  any  in  his 
lineal  rank. 


William  Van  Dumont  was  u  lieutenant  in  the  Sect.nd 
Battalion,  and  July  25th.  1781,  was  commissioned  to  th. 
same  office  in  the  First  Battalion.  Uk  service  was  during, 
the  entire  war. 

John  Van  NoKORN.-In  1777  and  1778  an  ensign  in  the 
Fourth    Battalion,  and   then   promoted   lieutenant   in    the 
Third  Battalion,  his  service  ceasing  in  1782.     After  the  war 
l>e  became  an    instructor  in    King's  College,  Nova  Scotia 
and  then  removed  to  Bermuda,  where  he  died. 

John  Vouoiit.-A  lieutenant  in  the  Sixth  Battalion, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Allen,  commanding,  in  1777  and  1778.' 
His  residence  before  the  war  was  in  Monmouth  county.' 
New  Jersey. 

JosKPu  WALLKR.-Lieutenant  in   tije  Fifth   Battalion  in 
1778.     His  history  unknown. 

John  WiLLis»comroenced  his  service  as  ensign  of  Third 
Battalion  of  the  volunteers,  then  made  ensign  of  the  Second 
.Battalion.  October  24M.,  1781,  and  in   1783  promoted  to  a 
lieutenancy. 

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SAMrrEL  Richard  VVilson.-A  lieutenant  in  the  Second 
Battalion  in-  1779.     The  following  year  he  was  transferred    ■ 
to  the  Royal  Garrison  Battalion. 


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62         TiiK  Nkw  Jkksky  Vomjntkkks  (Loyam.sth) 

PENSIONS. 

Jonathan  Alhton. — Kiisign    n  the  Third  Battalion  tioii! 
1777  to  1780. 

Petkh  Andkrhon,  (Misigti  in  the  Fifth  Battalion  in  1778. 
He  was  a  inenihcr  dI'  Governor  Franklin's  Board  of  Asso- 
lialed  Loyalists  in  New  York  city.  He  died  at  the  r.ge  of 
ninety  tivi',  in  Frederiel  ton,  in  the  Provinee  of  Now  Brnns 

wick. 


In  the  Rkv 


William  Ba^ks,  an  eii^ign  in  tlie  Second  liatlalion,  i-uni 
missioned  October  24th,  1782.     He  had  been  u  sergeant  in 
that  command  for  several  years  previous  to  this  date. 


Peter  Dunwortii.— Kns 

1779. 


James  Barton. — An  ensign  in  the  First  Battalion  Angn.'^t 
14th,  1781. 

Joseph   Bkan  was  an   ensign  of  the  Filth  Battalion  in 
1777  and  1778 


Joseph  Brittain. — He  was  a  brother  of  Lieutenant  Brit- 
tain  and    had  a  similar  experience  as  related   horeinbefore 
of  that  otiiccr.     He  was  an  ensign  in    the  First  Battalion, 
October  2otli,  1782.     He  died  in   the  year  183J,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-two. 

JyHN  Camp. — Ensign  in  Mie  Third  Baitalion.     Wounded 
in   thf    thigh   at   the-  affair  at   Egg  Harbour,   New  Jersey, 
•October  15th,  1778,  and   alter  that  date  discharged  for  dis- 
ability. 


Hendorpp  was    m; 


William  K.  Hurlet.— An  . 
in  1778. 


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63 


.Umr8  VoLK.-Kimfrn  i„  ,1,,.  Fu„rtl.  Battuli,,,.  in  Ihe 
ars  1777.1778  and  1770.  and  in  Xu^nM.  of  timt  year  is 
i'ul  as  a  prisoner  (,f  war  in  Pl.iladelplna  He  did  not 
urn  to  tiitt  service. 

Nathaniel  CnoMBEs.-Commi.s.ioned  an  ensig,,  in  tin- 
>rd  Battalion,  May  2Stl.,  1778,  transferred  in  17S(.  to 
^ond  Battalion,  and  so  renuuned  nntil  the  war  ended. 

^:?.KKiKL  DENNi8.-An  ensign  of  the  Fifth  liuttalion  in 
S.     His  servieo  i.  not  known  other  than  ju.st  mentioned. 

•kter  DuNVvuKTii.-En.i^M.  in  the  Third  Battalion  in 
0, 

>ANIEL  GuANDiN.-This  officer  Wa.s  an  ensij^n  in  the 
tl.  Battalion  for  a  short  time  in  the  year  1778  and  then 
the  service  and  lived  until  1782  in  New  York.  Me  was 
i.e  Board  of  the  Associated  Loyally..  i„  that  eity  dur- 
M>e  war  period,  and  then  lived  in  «helburi,e,  Nova  Scotia. 

EUBKN  Hankixson.-Hc  is  first  no(i..ed  us  an  enlisted 

iM   the  volunteers,  when    he   was  taken   prisoner  on 

■'"    Inland   in   1777.     Aft>     he  was  exchanged   he  was 

e  an  ensign  in  the  First  Battalion,  August  14th.  1781. 

Hendorpp  was    made   an    ensign   in   the   Third 

ilionon  February  5th,  1782,  and  thus  remained   until 
lose  of  the  war. 


fLLi.vM  K.  IIijRj^KT  — An  e 

78. 


iisignin  the  Second  Battalion 


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The  Nkw  Jersey  Volunteers  (Loyal £Sts) 


John  Jewett  was  commissioned  an  ensign  in  the  Third 
i?!attalion,  July  olst,  1779,  and  he  served  as  such  the  rest  of 
the  war. 

Zenophon  Jewett  was  made  an  ensign,  July  29th,  1778, 
in  the  First  Battalion,  and  so  remained  until  1783. 

William  Lawrence  was  an  ensign  in  the  First  Bat- 
iulion  until  1780,  and  then  resigned. 

James  Braiser  Le  Grange. — An  ensign  in  the  Third 
Battalion  in  1777  and  177(  ,  and  in  the  Second  Battalion  in 
1779  and  1780.     His  subsequent  history  is  not  known. 

1 

George  Lek. — An  ensign  in  the  Second  Battalion  in  1782 
and  1783.    His  comn;ission  bears  date  December  20th,  1781. 

John  Leonard. — Ensign  in  the  Second  Battalion  Decem- 
ber 18th,  1781.  He  died  in  1801  in  Mie  P-oviuce  of  New 
Brunswick. 

Richard  Lippincott. — Tliis  ii)f»moMo  mnn  commenced 
his  military  careei  as  «n  ensign  in  the  J^'irst  Battalion  dur- 
ing the  year  1777  and  up  to  the  summer  of  the  following 
year.  He  then  left  the  New  Jersey  Volunteers  and  spent 
the  rest  of  the  war  period,  with  rank  as  captain,  in  the 
direct  service  of  the- "  Board  of  Associated  Loyalists"  in 
New  York  city.  Captain  Lippincott  was  the  officer  who 
hanged  Captain  Joshua  Huddy  of  the  New  Jersey  State 
Troo[)S,  April  12th,  1782.  (See  pamphlet  by  the  author  of 
this  paper  entitled  "The  Capture  of  the  Block  House  at 
Toms  River,  New  Jcr?  >y,  March   24th,  1782.")     After  the 


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65 


war  Captain  Lippincott  received  from  Great  Britain  three 
thousand  acres  of  land  at  what  is  now  the  city  of  Toronto, 
Canada,  and  a  half-pay  pension  for  life.  He  died  in 
Toronto  in  the  year  1826,  aged  eighty-two. 

Richard  McGinnis,  ensign  in  the  Third  Battalion  in 
1779.  He  was  killed  in  the,  fight  at  King's  Mountain, 
Soutli  Carolina,  October  r  '.,  1780.  He  was  at  the  time' 
acting  as  a  lieutenant  in  Ferguson's  6oy\>s. 

Hector  McLean,  ensign  in  the  First  Battalion  in  1777 
and  1773. 

Colin  McVanb  was  an  ensign  in  the  Fourth  Battalion 
In  1778  and  1779. 


•  Phineas  Millidge,  ensign  in  the  First  Battalion,  Aug_„ 
25th,  1780.  [lo  was  the  youngest  of  four  sons  of  Major 
Thomas  Millidge.  He  died  in  Nova  Scotia  in  rhe  year 
1836,  at  the  age  of  seventy-one. 


year 


Peter  Myer,  ensign  in  the  volunteers  in  the  fall  of  1778 
and  1779.  He  was  killed  in  a  raid  in  Bergen  county,  New 
Jersey,  in  the  year  1779. 

John  RoBBiNs.--Ensign  in  the  First  Battalion  in  1777 
and  1778,  and  captured  on  Staten  Island  August  22d,  1777. 
He  is  found  in  Treuton  goal  soon  after  the  event. 

RuLOFF    RuLOPFs.—ComraissionGd    an    ensign    in    the 
Second  Battalion  October  15t!i,  1783. 
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66         The  New  Jkrsky  Vof-untkicks  (Loyalists) 

Stkphkn   Ryder. — An   ensign  in    the  Third    Battalion 
December  20th,  1781. 

George  Ryerson. — Ensign  in  the  Fourth  Battalion  in 
1776. 

John  Seamon. — Commissioned  an  ensign  in  the  Third 
Battalion  in  1779,  but  remained  in  service  but  one  year. 

James  Service. — An  ensign  in  the  Sixth  Battalion  in 
1778. 

John  Shannon  whs  commissioned  an  ensign  in  the 
Second  Battalion  September  10th,  1778,  and  remained  as 
such  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

Philip  Kearnev  Skinner.— A  resident  of  Perth  Amboy, 
Now  Jersey.  lie  was  a  son  of  Genera'  Skinner.  He  w,as 
commissioned  by  his  fatlier  as  ens.  ,ii  in  the  First  Bat- 
talion November  10th,  178^.  He  was,  after  the  war,  placed 
in  the  British  line — the  Twenty -Third  Regiment  of  Foot— 
and  after  various  promotions  he  became,  in  1825,  lieuten- 
ant-general of  the  British  army.  The  following  year, 
April  9th,  1326,  he  died  in  London. 

John  Swanton  was  an  ensign  in  the  Third  Battalion  in 
1778  and  until  1782,  when  we_  find  him  in  the  same  office 
in  the  Second  Battalion. 

Lewis  Thompson  was  commissioned  an  ensign  in  the 
Secon<:  Battalion  December  19th.  1781. 


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Henhv  Van  ALLKN.-Made  an  ensign  in  the  Third  Bat- 
talion December  18th,  1781. 

John  Woodward,  of  quaker  parentage,  living  in  Mon- 

'o   •  warnngs  and  fig,,ti„g.,"  and  „e  find  hi,n  as  an  -Lg, 
»  the  P,«t  Battalion  August  14th,  1781.     He  died  i-,  the 
Province  of  New  Brunswick  in  the  year  1805. 

ROB.R.  W„„,>vvAEi,._C„„misai„ned  an  ensign  in  the 
rh.rd  Battal,„n  Deccnber  19th,  ,781,  and  remained  therein 
u,>t,.^peaee  was  declared  and  the  New  Jersey  Volunteer. 


